 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.  Southern Reporter - Page 1001889Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 902 pages
...makes it greater than it was when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and indicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4th. Every law that changes the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1254 pages
...by increasing the term or duration of hispunishment. "Laws which change the punishment, and indict a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed," яте ex po.tt favto, and within the inhibition of the constitution. Const. Tex. art. l, g 16; Murray... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional history - 1891 - 456 pages
...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Every law...different testimony than the law required at the time of actually condemned them to death in their absence, and without trial. 1 Ex parte Garland, 4 Wall. 333.... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 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...than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less or different testimony than... | |
 | Samuel Freeman Miller - Constitutional law - 1891 - 800 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...than the law annexed to the crime, when committed. 4th. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different, LECTTRE xn.... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 922 pages
...innocent when done, criminal ; and punishes such action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, and makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Every law...than the law annexed to the crime when committed. " It is perceived that the second and third of these heads are in effect one; because the measure of... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1074 pages
...and punishes such action; 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than when it was committed; 3. Every law that changes the punishment,...that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives lessor different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1024 pages
...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such aotion; 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed; 3. Every law...than the law annexed to the crime when committed; *. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 802 pages
...committed, or one which changed the punishNY Hep.] Opinion of the Court, per PECKHAM, J. ment or inflicted a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed, or a law which changed the rules of evidence and received less or different testimony than was required... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Constitutional history - 1895 - 458 pages
...done, and provides for the punishment of the act; (2.) Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed; (3.) Every law that changes the punishment, and provides for a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when it was committed ; (4.) Every... | |
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