The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-03-18
Sec. II. The right Of trial by

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jury shall remain inviolate.
Sec. IL. No person shall be dis
qualified as a witness, or be pre-
vented from acquiring, holding
and transmitting property, or be
hindered in acquiring education,
or be liable to any other punish
rment for any offence, or be subject
ed in law to any other restraints or
diseualifcations in regard to any
personal rights than, such as are
laid upon others under like eircum-
stances. .
SEC. 13. No person shall be held
tosanswer for any crime or offence
until the same is fully, fairly, plain
.ly, substantially and formally de-
scribed to him; orEbe compelled to
accuse or furnish evidence against
himself: and every person shall
have q right: to produce all proofs
that may be favorable to him, to
meet the witnesses against him
face to face, to have a speedy and
public trial by an impartial jury,
and to,be fully heard in his defence
by himself or by his counsel, OF by
both, as he may elect. -=..--..,s,-..
Sec. IA. No person shall be ar
rested, imprisoned, despoiled or
dispossessed Of his property, inn
maaities or privileges, put out Of
the protection of the law, :exiled
or deprived Of his life liberty: or
estate, but by the Judgment Of his
peers or the law ofthe land. And
the General Assembly: shall not
enact any law that shall subject
any personsto punishment without
trial by, jury nor shall be be pun.
isheds but by virtue of a law already:
established, or promulgated prior
to the offence, and legally applied.
zsf5 AtI seo1rts shall be pub-s
lie, and every person, for any in
jury that he may receive in his
land, goods, person, or reputation,
shall have remedy by due course
of law and justice administe. ed
without unnecessary delay. X
:. Sec. S1e. Allpersonsshall, before
conviction, be bailable BY sufficient
sureties, except for capital offences,
when the proofs evident or the
presumption great; and excessive
bail shall not, in any case, be re-
qnired, nor eorperaf punishment
inflicted. = IS, .@.~ - -
SEC. n. The privilege of the
writ of hobeas corpus shall not be
suspended. except when in ease of
insurrectien, rebellion or invasion,
the public safety may require it.
: Sec. IS. No person, after having
been once acquitted BY q jury,
shall again, for the same offence.
be put in Jeopardy of his life or lib
erty. ..,-.-. ?. ..
SEC. is All offences less than
felony, and in which the punish.
ment does not exceed a fine of
s100, or imprisonment for thirty
days, shall be tried summarily be-
fore ajustice of the peace, or other
officer authorized by law, orinform-
alton under oath, without indict-
ment or intervention of a grand
jury, saving to the defendant the
right of appeal; and no person
shall be held to answer for any
higher crime or offence unless on
presentment of a grand jury, ex-
cept in cases arising in the land
and naval service, orin the militia
when in actual service in time of
war OF public danger,
Sec. 20. No person shall be i'm
prisoned for debt except in cases
of fraud and a reasonable amount
of property as a homestead, shall
be exempt from seizure or sale for
the payment of any debts Or liabil-
tiles, except for the payment of
such obligations as are provided
for in this Constitution.
Sec. 21. No bill Of attainder, er
post focto law, nor any law impair
ing the obligation of contracts,
shall ever be- enacted and no con-
yiction shall work corruption of
blood or forfeiture of estate. =
Sec. %. All persons have a
right to be secure from unreason-
able, searches on. seizrres of their