be drawn and summoned at least once a year in each county.

Art. 1, § 9. . . In all criminal prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Indictments found, or information laid, for publications in newspapers, shall be tried in the county where such newspapers have their publication office, or in the county where the party alleged to be libeled resided at the time of the alleged publication, unless the place of trial shall be changed for good cause.

Art. I, 13. In criminal prosecutions in any court whatever, the party accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial; to have the process of the court to compel the attendance of witnesses in his behalf, and to appear and defend in person and with counsel. No person shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The legislature shall have power to provide for the taking, in the presence of the party accused and his counsel, of depositions of witnesses, in criminal cases, other than cases of homicide, when there is reason to believe that the witness, from inability or other cause, will not attend at the trial.

Art. I, 16. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligations of contracts, shall ever be passed.

Art 1, § 20. Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war against it, adhering to its enemies or giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the evidence of two witnesses to the same overt act, or confession in open court.

Art. II, § 1. . . . No person convicted of any infamous crime, and no person hereafter convicted of the embezzlement or misappropriation of public money,

ever exercise the privilege of an elector in this state.

shall

Art. IV, § 17. The assembly shall have the sole power of impeachment, and all impeachments shall be tried by the senate. When sitting for that purpose, the senators shall be on oath or affirmation, and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members elected.

Art. IV, § 18. The governor,

lieutenant-governor,

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retary of state, controller, treasurer, attorney-general, surveyor-general, chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court, and judges of the superior courts, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office: but judgment in such cases shall extend only to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit, under the state; but the party convicted or acquitted shall, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial, and punishment, according to law. All other civil officers shall be tried for misdemeanor in office in such manner as the legislature may provide.

Art. IV, 21. No person convicted of the embezzlement or defalcation of the public funds of the United States, or of any state, or of any county or municipality therein, shall ever be eligible to any office of honor, trust, or profit under this state, and the legislature shall provide, by law, for the punishment of embezzlement or defalcation as a felony.

Art. VI, § 1. The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, in a supreme court, superior courts, justices of the peace, and such inferior courts as the legislature may establish in any incorporated city or town, or city and county.

Art. VI, § 4. The supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction

in all criminal cases prosecuted by.

indictment or information, in a court of record, on questions of law alone. Each of the justices shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the state, upon petition by or on behalf of any person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable before himself, or the supreme court, or before any superior court in the state, or before any judge thereof.

Art. VI, § 5. The superior courts shall have original jurisdiction in all criminal cases amounting to felony, and cases of misdemeanor not otherwise provided for. . . They shall have appellate jurisdiction in such cases arising in justices' and other inferior courts in their respective counties, as may be prescribed by law. Said courts, and their judges, shall have power to issue writs of . . habeas corpus, on petition by, or on behalf of any person in actual custody, in their respective counties.

Art. VI, § 19. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and declare the law.

Art. XII, § 19. No railroad or other transportation company shall grant free passes or passes or tickets at a discount to any person holding any office of honor, trust, or profit in this state; and the acceptance of any such pass or ticket by a member of the legislature or any public officer, other than railroad commissioner, shall work a forfeiture of his office.

Art. XX, § 2. Any citizen of this state who shall, after the adoption of this constitution, fight a duel with deadly weapons, or send or accept a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, either within this state or out of it, or who shall act as second, or knowingly aid or assist in any manner those thus offending, shall not be allowed to hold any office of profit, or to enjoy the right of suffrage under this constitution.

Art. XX, § 10. Every person shall be disqualified from holding any office of profit in this state who shall have

been convicted of having given or offered a bribe to procure his election or appointment.

Art. XX, § 11. Laws shall be made to exclude from office, serving on juries, and from the right of suffrage, persons convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, malfeasance in office or other high crimes. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections and prohibiting under adequate penalties all undue influence thereon from power, bribery, tumult or other improper practice.