| South Carolina - 1868 - 942 pages
...of SECTION 16. All persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by suftibaU> cient sureties, except for capital offences, when the proof is evident or the presumption great ; and excessive bail shall not, in any case, be required, nor corporal punishment inflicted. Habeas corjmi.... | |
| Jacob Isidor Mombert - Lancaster County (Pa.) - 1869 - 832 pages
...for the Use of his Creditors, in such Manner as shall be hereafter regulated by Law. All Prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient Sureties, unless for capital Offences, when the proof is evident or presumption great. SECTION THE TWENTY-NINTH. Excessive Bail shall not be exacted for bailable Offences... | |
| Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1870 - 480 pages
...answer any criminal charge but by presentment, indictment or impeachment. SEC. 15. That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for...the proof is evident or the presumption great. And the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in case of rebellion... | |
| Tennessee - History - 1870 - 468 pages
...soldiers in actual service."- So that the same shall read as follows : Sec. 15. That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident, or presumption great. And the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when... | |
| Texas - Law - 1866 - 522 pages
...tried for the same by a jury, or otherwise as the Legislature may provide. . , SEC. 9. All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident; but this provision shall not be so construed as to prohibit bail after indictment found, upon an examination... | |
| Elder James A. Little - 1872 - 862 pages
...be infl'cted, nor shall witnesses be unreasonably detained. Sec 7. All persons shall be bailable hy sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident or the presumption great. Sec. 8. No person shall be tried for a capital or other infamous crime (ex «pi... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal procedure - 1872 - 806 pages
...Constitution and the Code are, " entitled to bail as a matter of right." 1 And in Illinois, by statute, " all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, where the proof is evident, or the presumption great." 2 So by the Constitution, in Mississippi, "... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 580 pages
...been exorcised by all courts of criminal jurisdiction to bo now questioned. Our constitution provides that all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless' for capital offenses. The statute directing the mode of calling an examining court has reference to a prisoner... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1873 - 788 pages
...imiwatd, nor cruel punishment inflicted. PRISONERS.-/MBS.1J COKPl'S. SECT. XIV. That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for Capital offences, when the proof is evident or presumption great ; and the privilege of the v.-rit of habeas corj/iw sliuli not bo suspended, unless... | |
| Ohio. Constitutional convention - Constitutions - 1873 - 1372 pages
...give evidence against himself, nor shall he be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense. SEC. 12. That all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offenses, where the proof is evident or the presumption great ; and the privilege of the writ of habeas... | |
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