| 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
...punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence,...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,... | |
| 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
...punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence,...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
...iihment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence,...the law required, at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and similar laws, are prohibited by the Constitution.... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...the punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence,...the law required at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender. § 232. It is true, Mr. Justice Johnson, in a note to... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 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 long continued practice from the time of the adoption of the constitution,... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1855 - 700 pages
...punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence,...the law required, at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and similar laws, are prohibited by the Constitution.... | |
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