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Supreme Court· 5/31/1898

Thompson v. Missouri

Citations

  • 171 U.S. 380
  • 18 S. Ct. 922
  • 43 L. Ed. 204
  • 1898 U.S. LEXIS 1611

Syllabus

<p>The act of the legislature of Missouri of April 8, 1895, Missouri Laws 1895, page 284-, providing that “ comparison of a disputed writing with any-writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses, and such writings and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same may be submitted to the court and jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute,” is not ex post facto, under the Constitution'of the United States, when applied to prosecutions for crimes committed prior to its passage.</p>

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  • holding that a statute removing an exclusion that prevented persons from testifying based on public policy grounds does not violate the prohibition against ex post facto laws
  • holding that a Missouri statute authorizing for the first time the comparison of disputed handwriting with any writing provided to be genuine was not an ex post facto law
  • holding that a Missouri statute authorizing for the first time the comparison of disputed handwriting with any writing provided to be genuine was not an ex post facto law
  • holding a law admitting previously inadmissible handwriting samples did not violate ex post facto clause
  • rejecting ex post facto challenge to retroactive application of statute making admissible handwritten documents as handwriting exemplars
  • rejecting e.r post facto challenge to retroactive application of statute making admissible handwritten documents as handwriting exemplars

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Judges: Harlan

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