 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 824 pages
...m»tter in ' issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty npon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall...information shall be tried, to find the defendant or the defendants guilty, (a) Per Lord Campbell, CJ, 1 El. & Bl. 577. (6) 1 E. & B. 269. (c) Id. 272.... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - Nova Scotia - 1873 - 566 pages
...same, to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty wpon the whole matter in issue, and that they shall not be required or directed by the court or...information shall be tried, to find the defendant fuilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant of the paper charged to be a libel,... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - Nova Scotia - 1873 - 566 pages
...upon the whole matter in issue, and that they shall not le required or directed by the court or judye, before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant guilty merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant of the paper charged to be a libel,... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...guilty or uot guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information, and should not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom it should be tried to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof of the publication of the paper... | |
 | Forrest Fulton - Constitutional history - 1875 - 340 pages
...whole matter put in issue upon the inImportant trials for seditious libel. The crisis In 1688. dictment or information, and shall not be required, or directed by the court or judge, to find the defendant " guilty" merely on proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Great Britain - 1875 - 592 pages
...person accused, and that in cases of libel, the jury ought not to be directed by the judge to pronounce the defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by snch defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the sense ascribed to the said... | |
 | John Proffatt - Jury - 1876 - 624 pages
...general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment and information, and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom it shall be tried to find the defendant guilty merely on the proof of the publication of the paper... | |
 | William Worth Belknap - Trials (Impeachement) - 1876 - 1180 pages
...the whole mutter put in issue, * * and shall not be required or directed by the oourt or judge * * * to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication. When by the Constitution the sole power to try impeachments was conferred upon the Senate, without... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1876 - 392 pages
...whole matter pnt in issue, * * * and shall not bo required or directed by the court or judge * * * to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the proof of the publication. When by the Constitution the sole power to try impeachments was conferred npon the Senate without any... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Law - 1876 - 622 pages
...ascribed to the same in such indictment or information. " II. 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 or direction to the jury on... | |
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Be it 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 indictment or information; and shall not be required... 
