 | Benjamin Boothby - Criminal law - 1854 - 480 pages
...to the same in such indictment or information. By sect. 2, it is provided 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, irive their or his opinion or direction to the jury on... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 572 pages
...the statute, but in quite a different connection, and, as I think, with just the opposite meaning. " 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,... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...Cases. jury should give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue. The act provided, that they might give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on the indictment, or information, and that they should not be required to find the defendant... | |
 | South Australia - Law - 1876 - 404 pages
...information for making or publishing a libel, where any issue is joined on the plea of not guilty, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the Court or Judge before whom such information shall be tried... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 682 pages
...Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, on every such trial, the jury sworn to 1ry the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or...not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon soch indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed by the Court or Judge before... | |
 | David Rowland - Constitutional history - 1859 - 606 pages
...their verdict upon the whole matter in issue ; — it was declared and enacted that the jury might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue ; and should not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty, merely... | |
 | Ontario - Law - 1859 - 1250 pages
...• ' • • of guilty on the pleaded, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a gene mere proof of verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in >the publication . . ° . J . ,. ° * *. . and of the sense in such action, indictment or mtormation,... | |
 | William Blackstone - English law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...indietment or information for libel, the jury sworn to try the issue were to give a general verdiet of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue; and should not be required or direeted by the Court or judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on... | |
 | Heman Gerald Chapin - Torts - 1917 - 720 pages
...that whether a publication was libelous depended upon the motive or dared that on every trial the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue upon the indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed to find the defendant... | |
 | Law - 1917 - 898 pages
...Code, providing that in criminal proceedings for libel the jury sworn to try the kssue may bring in a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required to find the defendant guilty merely on proof of publication of... | |
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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... 
