 | Richard Burn - 1831 - 972 pages
...trial, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not 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 of the publication by such defendant of the paper... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Criminal law - 1834 - 518 pages
...that on every trial of an indictment or information for a libel, upon the plea of not guilty, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...Irish act 33 Geo. 3. c. 43.) which enacted, that on trials of indictment for libel, the jury might on behalf in issue ; and though, perhaps, the act is not drawn in the most intelligible and consistent manner,... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...of opinion that the composition is not libellous. By the Libel Act of 32. Geo. 3. c. 60. " the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed to find the defendant guilty,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...And it declares and enacts, that on every trial of an indictment or information for a libel, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1836 - 1178 pages
...to the same in such indictment or information." ยง 2. " Provided always, that, on every such trial, the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, shall, according to their or his discretion, give their or his opinion and directions to the jury on... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 928 pages
...trial of an indictment or information for a libel ; the jury may, by the provisions of the statute, give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, pro1 Bennett v. Bennett, 6 C. & P. " Chalmers v. Payne, 2 CM & 586. R. 156. 1 Gale, 69. Dicasv. Law.... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...trial of an indictment or information for a libel; the jury may, by the provisions of the statute, give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in *1400 issue, provided *the judge shall give his opinion or direction to them on the matter in issue.... | |
 | Thomas George Western, Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional law - 1838 - 628 pages
...doubts respecting the functions of juries), it is enacted, that, on every trial for libel, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter at issue; and shall not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
 | Law - 1838 - 534 pages
...of any indictment or information for libel, " the jury shall not be directed by the Judge or Court before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant guilty, merely on proof of the publication of the paper charged to he a libel, and of the sense ascribed... | |
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... the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information... 
