 | Henry Campbell Black - Constitutional law - 1897 - 860 pages
...technical one, and applies only to penal and criminal proceedings. An ex post facto law is one (a) Which makes an action done before the passing of the law,...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action, or (b) Which aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed, or (c) Which changes... | |
 | New York (State), William Henry Silvernail - Criminal law - 1897 - 1152 pages
...People v. Hayes, 56 St. Rep. 456 ; 140 NY 484 ; aff'g 54 St Rep. 184; 26 NY Supp. 194. A law which aggravates a crime or makes it greater than it was when committed, or one which changes the punishment or inflicts > a greater punishment than the law annexed to the... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1898 - 1174 pages
...state what laws I consider ex post facto laws within the words and intent of the prohibition: First, every law that makes an action done before the passing...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; second, every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed; third, every... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 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... | |
 | 1898 - 1086 pages
...state what laws I consider ex post facto laws within the words and intent of the prohibition: First, every law that makes an action done before the passing...which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes snoh action: second, every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed:... | |
 | 1899 - 976 pages
...But this definition is also open to criticism. lt is in order to take up group (1), which comprises: (1) Every law that makes an action done before the...was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action.—lt had previously been observed with reference to certain English ex post facto laws that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1965 - 636 pages
...Aft. I, § 10, of the Constitution forbids. An ex post facto law has been defined by this Court as one "that makes an action done before the passing of the...innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action," or "that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed." Colder v. Bull, 3 Dall.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 928 pages
...which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2. Every law that aggravates the crime or makes it greater than it was when committed....punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than was annexed to the crime when committed. 4. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and... | |
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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. 
