 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 552 pages
...application to criminal cases. It defines four distinct classes of laws embraced by the clause. " 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent wheu done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates the crime or makes it... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1870 - 896 pages
...409, it is said that these words were "technical expres" sions, and meant even- law 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 altered the... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1871 - 678 pages
...Constitution into four classes: 1. Every law that makes an action done before the passi ng of th» law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and...the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment tlian the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4. Every law that alters the rule of evidence, and... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Freed persons - 1871 - 670 pages
...the Constitution into four classes: 1. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of tht national crime inÛicte a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4. Every law that alters... | |
 | California - California - 1872 - 738 pages
...of the ex post facto prohibition embraces: 1. Every law that makes an action done before the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal,...law that aggravates a crime or makes it greater than when it was committed; 3. Every law that changes the punishment nnd inflicts a greater punishment than... | |
 | California - California - 1872 - 732 pages
...of the ex post facto prohibition embraces: 1. Every law that makes an action dene before the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; $. Every law that aggravates a crime or makes it greater than when it was committed; 3. Every law that... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...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... | |
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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. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 
