Stephen Johnson Field

“ A law changing the place of trial from one county to another county in the same district, or even to a different district from that in which the offence was committed, or the indictment found, is not an ex post facto law, though passed subsequent to the commission of the offence or the finding of the indictment. An ex post facto law does not involve, in any of its definitions, a change of the place of trial of an alleged offence after its commission. ”

“ Peck, [2] to be a law, 'which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed;' and in Cummings v. Missouri, [3] with somewhat greater fulness, as a law 'which imposes a punishment for an act which was not punishable at the time it was committed ”