 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1792 - 558 pages
...the whole matter In iflue upon an indidtment or information, and fhould not be required or diredted by the Judge to find the defendant guilty merely on the proof of the publication, and of the fenfe afcribedto fuch libel by fuch information or indictment. This was a proportion which .from all that... | |
 | Earl Charles Stanhope Stanhope - Jury - 1792 - 178 pages
...Information -f-." upon the whole Matter in Iflue ; and fhall not be required or direfted, by the Court or Judge, to find the Defendant Guilty, merely on the Proof of the Publication, and of the Senfe afcribed to the fame in the Indictment or Information. The Reader will do well alfo carefully... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...verdift of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter in iffue, and mall not be required or direfted by the judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the fenfe afcribed eo it in the record. But the ftatute... | |
 | Edward Christian - Law - 1801 - 284 pages
...jury may give a general verdiit: of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter in ¡flue, and ihall not be required or directed by the judge, to find the defendant guilty, mertly en the proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the fenfe afcribed... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...not be required or directed by the court or judge, before whom the indictment, &c. 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, and of the sense ascribed to the same in such... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...not be required or directed by the court or judge, before whom the indictment, &c. 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, and of the «nse ascribed to the same in such... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme - Constitutional history - 1816 - 602 pages
...on every trial for a libel, a jury might give a verdict upon the whole matter in issue, and should not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on a proof of the publication of the alleged libel, and of the sense ascribed to it in the record. EDIT.]... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 782 pages
...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 on the proof of the publication, and of the sense ascribed to the same in the indictment or information : provided', that the court shall give... | |
 | John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1818 - 762 pages
...jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter in iffuc, and {hall not be required or directed by the judge, to find...defendant guilty, merely on the proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the fenfe afcribed to It in the record. But the ftatute... | |
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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... 
