 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...statutes only. See 3 Dal. 386. And therefore every law which makes an action done before the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action, is an expost facto law, and consequently unconstitutional. So, if it aggravates a crime, or makes it... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 Seiten
...that the words ex post facto laws were technical expressions, and meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when n Billis ndt. the State, 2 M-Cord's Rep. 12. 6 4 Peten' US Rep. 410. c 3 Dalltu, 386. done, criminal... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 810 Seiten
...Doll. 386. 2. The prohibition embraces, 1st. Every law that makes an action, done before the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or that makes il greater than when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - 1836 - 550 Seiten
...however, held that the words ex post facto were technical expressions, and meant laws that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; or which aggravated a crime, and made it greater than it was when committed; or which changed the punishment,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 Seiten
...state what laws I consider ex post facto laws, within the words and the intent of the prohibition. 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing...innocent when done, criminal ; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 Seiten
...relates only to criminal, and not to civil cases. Those laws only are ex post facto which either, 1, make an action done before the passing of the law, and...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; or, 2, aggravate a crime, or make it greater than it was when committed; or, 3, change the punishment,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 682 Seiten
...Constitution, extends to criminal and not to civil cases. And under this head, is included — 1st. Every law that makes an action, done before the passing...innocent, when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 Seiten
...Colder v. Bull,(b} Chase, Justice, in delivering the opinion, defines ex post facto laws to be, 1st, Every law that makes an action done before the passing...which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes the action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 700 Seiten
...Constitution, extends to criminal and not to civil cases. And under this head, h included — 1st. Every law that makes an action, done before the passing of the law, and which was t'n» nocent, when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1857 - 590 Seiten
...an ex post facto law, within the State v. Bond. view of the Constitution, to be as follows : " 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2nd. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was before it was committed. 3rd.... | |
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Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 
