 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Citizenship - 1832 - 428 pages
...unconstitutional. So, if it aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. So, if it changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when 5t was committed. So, if it alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives any testimony less than,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...law annexed to the crime when committed ; or which altered the legal rules of evidence, and received less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender.' The Supreme Court conclnded, that the law or resolution... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - Law - 1834 - 810 pages
...criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or that makes il greater than when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment...the law required at the time of the commission of the offence in order to convict the offender. — Ibid. Per Chase J. Hut see the case of Dath v. Van... | |
 | James Asheton Bayard - 1834 - 198 pages
...; or inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed ; or alters the rules of evidence, and receives less, or different...the law required at the time of the commission of the offence ; in short, any law which renders an act punishable, in a manner in which it was not punishable,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action ; 2d, every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater...the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender. Per CHASE, J. Ibid. Hi. If any act of Congress, or of... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 550 pages
...annexed to the crime when it was committed; or which altered the legal rules of evidence, and received less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender; and that the resolution granting the new trial, was... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal ; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater...the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and similar laws, are manifestly unjust and... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...the law annexed to the crime when committed ; or, 4, alter the legal rules of evidence, and receive less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender No law that mollifies the rigour of the criminal law... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1855 - 682 pages
...the passing of the law, and which was innocent, when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime or makes it greater...was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the pun* iihment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime, when committed.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Kvery law that changes the punishment and inflicts a greater...than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than... | |
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Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender. 
