 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1883 - 770 pages
...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, 391 ; 4 Wall.... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...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 in a manner in 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,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1236 pages
...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...punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Appeal from County Court, Craig County ; SF Parks, Judge. Dave Jones was convicted... | |
 | David Dudley Field - Law - 1884 - 604 pages
...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 a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | john henry smith - 1884 - 858 pages
...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 •... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 pages
...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 in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...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 in which it was not punishable when it was committed." "Such a law," said that eminent judge, "may inflict penalties on the person, or... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1164 pages
...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...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. It is contended... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1887 - 880 pages
...in order to conviction. These three classes may be reduced to one ; namelv, all laws which make au act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed. But the court did not consider any law ex post fado within the prohibition which mollified the rigor... | |
 | James Joseph McGovern - 1888 - 510 pages
...manifestly unjust and oppressive, 3 Dalla, 390-1." And in a late case, Chief Justice Marshall says: "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." Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Crunch, 13S. " This definition," says Chancellor Kent, " is... | |
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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. 
