... the jury sworn to try the issue, may give a general verdict of not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge, before whom such indictment or information... A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases - Page 662by Henry Roscoe - 1852 - 929 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1792 - 532 pages
...be required or direñed, before the court or judge before whom fuch indiftment or information fliall be tried, to find the defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by fuch defendant or defendants of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the fenfe afcribed to the fame... | |
| Earl Charles Stanhope Stanhope - Jury - 1792 - 178 pages
...the w&ok Matter B 3 put put in I flue; arid mall not be required or direfted, by the Court or Judge, to find the Defendant or Defendants Guilty, merely on the Proof of the Publication of the Paper charged to be a 1 ibel, and of the Senfe afcribed to the fame in the Indictment or Information.... | |
| History - 1795 - 688 pages
...not be required or din-Hal, by the court or judge before whom fuch indictment or information (hall be tried, to find the defendant or defendants guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by fuch defendant or defendants of the paper charged to he a libel, and of the feme afcribed to the fame... | |
| Joseph Towers - France - 1796 - 452 pages
...required or directed, by the f< court or judge before whom fuch in» *' di&meht or information fhall be tried, " to find the defendant or defendants ** Guilty, merely on the proof of the pub" lication, and of the fenfe afcrib.ed to it <* in the indictment or information." IF juries had... | |
| William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 450 pages
...That, on every such trial, the Jury " sworn to try the issue, may give a general ver" diet of Guilty or Not guilty upon the whole matter " put in issue upon...the Court " or Judge before whom such indictment or infor" rnation shall be tried, to find the defendant or de" fendants guilty, merely on the proof of... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...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...information; and shall not be required or directed, the court or judge before whom such indictment or information shall be tried, to find the defendant... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...that f on every such trial, the jury, sworn to try tie issue, may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue, upon...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... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...such trial, the jury, sworn to try the issue, may give a general verdict of gnilty or not guilty, npon the whole matter put in issue, upon such indictment...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... | |
| Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...the Court, or Judge, before " \vhom fuch Indiftment, or Information, fhall be tried, to find 18? " find the defendant, or defendants, guilty, merely on the " proof of the publication by fuch defendant, or defendants, " of the paper charged to be a libel, and of the fenfe afcribed " to... | |
| Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 636 pages
...or NOT GUILTY, upon the whole matter put in " iffue upon fuch Indictment or Information; and (hall not " be required, or directed, by the Court, or Judge, before " whom fuch Indictment, or Information, (hall be tried, to 4 find " find the defendant, or defendants, guilty,... | |
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