 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Common law - 1843 - 334 pages
...guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof...the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information. The second section enacts that, in every such trial, the court or judge shall, at their... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Forms (Law) - 1844 - 562 pages
...defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information. There the judge was confined by the formula to the determination of a mere question... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - Criminal law - 1845 - 756 pages
...issue, and should not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom the trial was had, to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof...a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in the indictment." During the debates on this bill in the house of lords, the twelve judges, upon a question... | |
 | International law - 1845 - 542 pages
...defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information." Sect. 2. provides "that, on every such trial, the court or judge, before whom such... | |
 | International law - 1845 - 532 pages
...defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information." Sect. 2. provides " that, on every such trial, the court or judge, before whom such... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information." ยง 2 provides, " That, on every such trial, the court or judge, before whom such indictment... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...issue, and should not be reqiiired or directed by the court or judge before whom the trial was had, to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof...a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in the indictment." BOSTON, During the debates on this bill in the House of Lords, an' b ' the twelve... | |
 | William Forsyth - Jury - 1852 - 506 pages
...before whom it shall be tried to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in the indictment or information. Provided that on every such trial the court or judge before whom it... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such indictment or information." SPEECH in defence of John Stockdale, 9th December, 1789. On the occasion of the impeachment... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1854 - 586 pages
...defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant or defendants, of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the same on such indictment or information. II. Provided always, that on every such trial the court or judge... | |
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... such indictment or information; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information... 
