 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1813 - 710 pages
...issue; and it is then declared and enacted that on every such trial the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put to issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the Court... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 416 pages
...therefore " declared and enacted, by, &c. That on every such trial the Jury " sworn to try the issue, may give a general verdict of Guilty or '' Not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on such indict" meat or information ;—and shall: not be required or directed " by the... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Criminal procedure - 1814 - 378 pages
...indictment or information for the making or publishing of any libel, it shall be competent to 1 he jury to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, and that the jury shall not be required or directed by the court to find the defendant... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 516 pages
...assembled, and by the authority of the same, that on every such trial, 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 1nformation, and shall not be required or directed, by the court... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...in an attempt to improve the law of libel, by an act declaratory of the right of a jury to bring in a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put to issue on an indictment or information for libel, without being required to regard the proof... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 748 pages
...account, that on the 9ih of January last, he went * It is now by Statute 32 G. 3, c. 60, settled, that the jury may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole matter put to issue on the indictment or information. See vol. 8, p. 36. As to the contests which had arisen... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 714 pages
...declaratory statute 32 Geo. 3, c. 60, has fully established the right of juries in such cases to « 2 L :ew} pͮl ` S ~Վ s庝 T" q wg yf ' L a 6 x /x put to issue on the in' dictment or information.' This statute originated in the House of Commons,... | |
 | John Aikin - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...opposition. A bill declaratory of the rights of juries in matter of libel, namely, that they are empowered to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put to issue, which had been introduced by Mr. Fox in the last session, but postponed, was again brought... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1817 - 860 pages
...3. c. 60. it is declared and enacted, that on the trial of an indictment oj information for a libel, 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 to find the defendant guilty,... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 776 pages
...verdict upon the whole matter in issue, it was by stat. 3-2 Geo. 3. c. GO. enacted and declared, that 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 to find the defendant guilty, merely... | |
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ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue... 
