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... Albany Law Journal - Страница 3491883Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John Marshall - 1839 - 762 страници
...pardon. They are certainly retrospective, and literally both concerning and after the facts committed. But I do not consider any law ex post facto, within the prohibition, that mollifies the rigor of the criminal law ; but only those that create or aggravate the crime, or increase... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1857 - 590 страници
...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 constitution. State v. lion d, 9. 2. A party... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 страници
...pardon. They are certainly retrospective, and literally both concerning and after the facts committed. But I do not consider any law ex post facto, within the prohibition, that mollifies the rigor of the criminal law ; but only those that create or aggravate the crime, or increase... | |
| John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 570 страници
...unjust, and may be oppressive; and it is a good general rule that a law should have no retrospect. But I do not consider any law ex post facto, within the prohibition, that mollifies the rigor of the criminal law, but only those that create or aggravate the crime, or increase... | |
| 1883 - 552 страници
...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...the offender." Again he says: "But I do not consider auy law ex post facto, within the prohibition, that modifies the rigor of the law, but only these that... | |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1870 - 708 страници
...pardon. They are certainly retrospective, and literally both concerning, and after, the facts committed. But I do not consider any law ex post facto, within the prohibition, that mollifies the rigor of the criminal law; but only those that create, or aggravate, the crime; or increase... | |
| 1890 - 548 страници
...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 statute of which complaint is made does not attempt to make that criminal which was not criminal... | |
| California - 1872 - 732 страници
...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. — Id. A law merely divesting antecedent vested rights of property, where there is no contract, is... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1874 - 904 страници
...pardon. They are certainly retrospective, and literally both concerning and after the facts committed. But I do not consider any law ex post facto, within the prohibition that mollifies the rigor of the criminal [* 266] law ; but * only those that create or aggravate the crime,... | |
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