 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...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,...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
...annexed to the 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...to the 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. Per CHASE, J. Ibid. Hi. If any act of Congress, or of... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...annexed to the 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 - 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
...to the 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 - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...annexed to 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 - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...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,...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
...to the 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 590 pages
...annexed to the 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." The prohibitory clause of the Constitution of the United... | |
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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. 
