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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. "
Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States - Page 373
by United States. Supreme Court - 1901
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Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the ..., Volume 3

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....
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The Rights of an American Citizen: With a Commentary on State Rights, and on ...

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,...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 1

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...
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A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, of a Public and ..., Volume 1

Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 810 pages
...law that aggravates a crime, or that makes il greater than when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment and inflicts a greater punishment 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...
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A Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: With an ...

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,...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ...

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...
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The Writings of John Marshall, Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon ...

John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment...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...
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A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections, Volume 9

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...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 16

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....
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Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ...

E. Fitch Smith - 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...
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