1781-06-26 (static/transcriptions/1781/06/053.jpg)

1781 Sessions [Tuesday] June 26th
more than is absolutely necessary.
If the Paper has not the meaning which the Drawer of the Indictment puts, You can not find him Guilty.
You are to inquire whether in common understanding the meaning is such as is alledged; not whether they might possibly have some other meaning.
Impey Said Afterward
Whether the Paper is criminal or not, whether it is a Libel or not, is not for You to determine: the Paper is on the Record, it will remain on the Record, if it be no Libel, the Defendant may avail himself of it in arrest of Judgment.
Then Sir E. Impey read from his own Note Book in the Court of King’s Bench.