Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1930, Page 11

REVISED CRIMINAL LAW AIM OF JURISTS American Institute of Law Striving to Clarify Conflict- ing Court Opinions. Screen Pamt Prev rust, and lengthens the life of screens. Will not clog, the mesh. MEtro. 0151 BUTLER-FLYNN 607-609 C St. Phone for Color Card | A double-headed study involving & proposed code of criminal procedure and a restatement of the law for the pur- pose of clarifying and simplifying con- fiicting court opinions based on the com- mon law was under way today by the American Institute of Law, embracing in its delegates approximately 600 high justices, judges and lawyers constituting the brains of the legal profession. A drastic revision of the Nation's criminal code, designed to untie a score of knots now hindering the movement and administration of justice, stood parifally approved early today as a com- mittée of experts and interested mem- bers of the bar resumed consideration | of the problem with a view to expediting |a final report on the code before the institute adjourns tomorrow. | Draft of Code Long Considered. | The criminal code represents four | years of labor on the part of the com- | mittee and the restatement of law, in- | volving even more exhaustive study, is | the result of seven years' labor. Debate on the latter this morning developed an |amazing lack of accumulated factual | data on such highly important subjects | relating to business as trusts, estates. | contracts and the like. Joseph H. Beale of the Harvard Law School, acting as reporter for the institute, assisted by a | committee of advisers, submitted the draft of the restatement. | The importance of the work is ac- | centuated by the existing confusion of {the law and the practical importance of the subject 'in & country with 48 States involving numerous conflicting mterpretations As pointed out by the president of | the institute, George W. Wickersham, the tremendous task in law revision un- | dertaken during the past seven years | and which will continue for 10 years more, is designed to serve as a model | for State Legislatures in the hope that the States generally will eventually adopt uniform codes that would do away | with the present-day confusion in the indmmhh‘atmn of justice. The whole | work, when completed, will comprise 22 | volumes of between 700 and 800 pages | each and will cost more than $1,500,000. Recommendations Approved. Among the approved recommenda- tions are: The selection of extra jurors in protracted strials, to eliminate retials because of sickness or death on a jury. The examination of jurors by the judge, rather than by "the opposing counsel. Permission to defendants to waive jury trial in all but capital cases. This latter recommendation drew from Judge Samuel Seabury of New York a suggestion that it encroached on somewhat dangerous ground. A motion was made to omit the chapter but it was lost. In replying to Judge Seabury's objections, Edwin R. Keedy, a member of the drafting committee, | pointed out that a number of States | already permit the waiver of jury trial with the consent of the defendant ex- T mulll pressed in open court, except where a | seéhitence of death may be imposed. | Other recommendations approved by il l | the institute included: Issuance of a loRD Alv[k‘[ | summons instead of a warrant of arrest in_minor cases. Provision for admitting material wit- i, SRAND i STEEL CUT IT MUST BE (;,oon nesses to bail and for releasing such witnesses after taking their depositions | in case bail cannot be given, thus elimi- | nating long jail confinement. | Provision for prosecution of an in- formation filed by the prosecuting at- torney in eases which now must be prosecuted by an indictment of the grand jury. |~ Simplification of the form of indict- ment to prevent guilty persons from escaping conviction through errors in | charging the offense. Major Issues Considered. | Among the major recommendations of the “Code” under consideration today | for inclusion in the final report are: Authority for judges to appoint their own experts, not connected with either | prosecution or defense, to determine the | issue of insanity in criminal cases. 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