 | Alexander James Dallas - 1799 - 552 pages
...punißiiteut, and inflicts a greater pvnljhment, than the law annexed to the crime, when comn-.ittcd. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives lefs, ur different, ttilimony, than the law recjuired at the time of UK- commiflion of the oftcncc.... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 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 - 1832 - 590 pages
...crime, and made it greater than it was when committed ; or which changed the punishment, and inflicted a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed ; or which altered the legal rules of evidence, and received less or different testimony than the law... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 810 pages
...such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or that makes il greater than when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment and inflicts...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 - 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 - 1839 - 762 pages
...action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts...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
...aggravate a crime, or make it greater than it was when committed; or, 3, change the punishment, and inflict a greater punishment than 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... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 682 pages
...crime or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the pun* iihment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed...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 action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Every law that changes the punishment and inflicts...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. 
