The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-11


duty of the General Assembly. to pass
suitable laws to protect every reli-
giors denomination in the peaceable
employment of its own mode of wor-
ship.
Sec. II. The right of trial by Jury
shall remain inviolate. -
Sec. II. No person shall be dis
qualified as witness, or be prevent
ed from acquiring, holding and trans.
mitting property, or be hindered in
acquiring education, or be liable to
any other punishment for any offence,
or be subjected in law to any other
restraints or disqualificntions in re-
gard to any personal rights than such
as are laid upon others under like
circumstances.
SEC. 13. No person shall be held
to answer for any crime or offence
until the same is fully, fairly, plainly,
substantially and formally described
to him; or be compelled to accuse or
furnish evidence against himself; and
every person shall have right to
produce all proofs that may be favor
able to him, to meet the witnesses
against him face to face, to have a
speedy and public trial by an i'm
partial jury, and to be fully heard in
his defence by himself or by his
counsel, or by both, as he may elect.
Sec. IL. No person shall be ar
rested, imprisoned, despoiled or dis
possessed of his property, immuni-
ties or privileges, put out of the
protection of the law, exiled or de-
prived of his life, liberty, or estate,
but by the Judgment of his peers or
the law of the land. And the Gene
raj Assembly shall not enact any law
that shall subject any person to pun
ishment without trial by Jury; nor
shall he be punished but by virtue of
q law already established, or promnl-
gated prior to the offence, and legally
applied.
SEC. Is. All courts shall be public,
and every person, for any injury that
he may receive in his land, goods,
person, or reputation, shall have
remedy by due course of law and
justice administered without unne-
cessary delay.
Sec. 16. ALI persons shall, before
conviction, be bailable by sufficient
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.
SEC. II. The privilege of the writ
OF habeaS corpus shall not be sus-
pended, except when in case of in
surreetion, rebellion or invasion, the
public safety may require it.
SEC. Is. No person, after having
been once acquitted by jury, shall
again, for the same offence, be put
in jeopardy of his life or liberty.
SEC. 10. All offences less than
felony, and in which the punishment
does not exceed fine of $1OO, or
imprisonment for thirty days, shall
be tried summarily before justice of
the peace or other officer authorized
by law, or information under oath,
without indictment or Intervention
of q grand jury, saving to the de-
fendant the right of appeal; and no
person shall be held to answer for
any higher crime or offence unless
Oh preSenCment or grand jury, eX-
cept in cases arising in the land and
naval service, or in tho militia when
in actual service in time of war or
public danger.
SEC. 20. No person shall be i'm
prisoned for debt except in cases of
fraud; and reasonable amount of
property, as homestead, shall be
exempted from seizure or sale for the
payment of any debts or liabilities,
except for the payment of such obli-
gations as are provided for in this
Con stitution.
Sec. FL. No bill of attainder, e.c
posi- Jacto law, nor any law impairing
the obligation ot contracts, shall oveI
be enacted; and no conviction shall
work corruption Of blood or forfeiture
of estate.
/ SEQ. %, All persons have o right