 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.  The Central Law Journal - Page 741881Full view - About this book
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 pages
...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 - 1834 - 810 pages
...crime when committed. 4th. 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 offence in order to convict the offender. — Ibid. Per Chase J. Hut see the case of Dath v. Van... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - 1836 - 550 pages
...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 - 1839 - 762 pages
...crime when committed. 4th. 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 offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and similar laws, are manifestly unjust and... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 pages
...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 - 1855 - 682 pages
...crime, when committed. 4th. 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 offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and similar laws, are prohibited by the Constitution.... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...the crime when committed. 4. 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 offence, in order to convict the offender. § 232. It is true, Mr. Justice Johnson, in a note to... | |
 | James Kent - 1851 - 706 pages
...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 - 1855 - 700 pages
...crime, when committed. 4th. 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 offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and similar laws, are prohibited by the Constitution.... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1857 - 590 pages
...Vide PARTY TO A SUIT. EVIDENCE. 1. A 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, is an ex post facto law within the prohibition of the... | |
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