 | Timothy Walker - 1882 - 850 էջ
...offence, in order to conviction. These tiiree classes may be reduced to one ; namely, all laws which make an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed. Hut the court did not consider any law ex post facto, within the prohibition which mollified... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - 1883 - 770 էջ
...act done before its passage, and which was innocent when done, criminal. (3 Dall. (US) 186.) A law which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed. 3 Cranch (US) 87. Ex POST FACTO LAW, (defined). 1 Baldw. (US) 00, 75 ; 3 Dall. (US) 386,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1884 - 882 էջ
...is Chief Justice Marshall's justly lauded expression in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch (U. 8.), 138 : ' An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable...which it was not punishable when it was committed.' If this be an exact definition, then an act to change the penalty of murder or treason, previously... | |
 | 1913 - 1236 էջ
...318, 414.*] (Additional Syllabus by Editorial Staff.) 3. CONSTITUTIONAL, LAW — "Ex POST FACTO LAW." An "ex post facto law" is one which renders an act...which it was not punishable when it was committed. Appeal from County Court, Craig County ; SF Parks, Judge. Dave Jones was convicted of violating the... | |
 | David Dudley Field - 1884 - 604 էջ
...into which the State may enter ? " The State Legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex pott facto law is one which renders an act punishable in...which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties which swell the... | |
 | john henry smith - 1884 - 858 էջ
...Chief Justice Marshall, lrennS the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, says: ^^ " " f*'1 facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it !* гч PUttisll*ble when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the '"' "* ature •... | |
 | 1885 - 892 էջ
...grant l>y the state via» an ex post facto law. The state legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable...which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties which swell the... | |
 | 1885 - 890 էջ
...was then required. In Fletcher v. Peck, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall defined an ex post facto law to be one " which renders an act punishable in a manner...which it was not punishable when it was committed." "Such a law," said that eminent judge, "may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett - 1886 - 764 էջ
...complicated, and will bo referred to in another portion of this section. The Chief Jus1 6 Cranch, 87. tice says : ' "An ex post facto law is one which renders...which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties which swell the... | |
 | 1897 - 1164 էջ
...within the meaning of that term; and in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 138, Chief Judge Marshall said that "an ex post facto law is one which renders an act...punishable in a manner In which it was not punishable when committed." See, also. Anderson v. Baker, 23 Md. 531, and Beard v. State, 74 Md. 132, 21 Atl. 700.... | |
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An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. 
