TULIA, TEXAS — Welcome Volunteer Tiff, the new National
Three Year Old Jersey Champion for both milk and fat, made much of
her record on wheat pasture in the plains country of the Texas pan
handle. Her owner is former 4-H Club boy J. Chester Elliff. Her
recorded production made in the Register of Merit division of The
American Jersey Cattle Club and supervised by Texas A and M Col
lege is 19,416 lbs. milk, testing 5.55% and 1,077 lbs. fat beginning
test at 3 years 8 months of age. The former class leader replaced by
this great record is Dream Noble Blanche Ixia, a registered Jersey,
owned by 4-H Club boy, P. E. Miller, Jr., Richfield, North Carolina.
Her record was 19,129 lbs. milk, testing 5.53% and 1,059 lbs. fat.
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FEDERAL TRIALS TO
BE SIMPLIFIED
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Attorney General Tom C. Clark j
today announced that the new
Federal Rules of Criminal Pro-1
cedure, simplifying the trial of \
criminal cases, and promulgated
by the Supreme Court of the,
United States, became effective
March 21, 1946. The new rules do I
away with the influence of the
widely varying state procedures
in federal cases and provide a new j
streamlined and uniform system |
for all the federal courts in the
United States.
In addition to the simplifica
tion of criminal trials in the fed
eral courts the new rules also I
modernize the Elizabethan lan-1
guage of indictments and plead-1
ings which has prevailed for cen- j
turies. Thus the introductory
statement in an indictment in the
future will say merely: “The
Grand Jury Charges,” in place of
the several heavy lines of swollen
old English it now takes to say the
same thing.
The new rules are designed to
save both Government and de-!
fendants expense and delay. They
make the work of lawyers less ar-;
duous. Under the old rules pro-!
cedures vary so fundamentally in j
the several states that a lawyer!
from one state often found him-;
self virtually unable to try a case
in the federal court of another
state. The new rules will elimin- ■
ate this problem.
Congress, the Supreme Court,
the Department of Justice, and
members of the bench and bar all
participated in framing the new
rules.
Mr. Clark declared:
“The revision presents a not-1
able advance in the administra- 1
tion of criminal justice. The new 1
procedure eliminates most of the
technicalities that are relics of a
bygone age. The simplification'
should result in speeding up the 1
cases to trial while at the same1
time preserve and safeguard the
rights of the defendant.”
Mr. Clark pointed out that many
of the new rules give added pro-1
tection to a defendant in a crim-1
inal case. For example, as accused
may be served with a summons, j
merely notifying him to appear in
court, and avoid the humiliation
of arrest, if, in the discretion of j
the court, he is not likely to be-1
come a fugitive. Also for the first i
time in federal practice a defend
ant charged with a serious offense
may obtain a change of venue to;
a different judicial district,—even
outside the state in which the al
leged federal offense was com
mitted,—if the court feels local
prejudice may prevent a fair and
impartial trial.
Another change brought about
by the new rules is to abolish the
involved and technical “pleas of
abatement,” “demurrers," “mo
tions to quash” and “pleas in
bar,” which are designed to attack
the legality of an indictment. The
new rules substitute a simple mo
tion asking for the desired relief.
The time within which an appeal
from a conviction may be taken is
increased, and, if the defendant
discovers new evidence which
might establish his innocence, he
now has two years instead of sixty
days to move for a new trial.
The Attorney General empha
sized that the new rules give spe
cial protection to the rights of
poor defendants. The court may
now at Government expense sub
poena witnesses for an indigent
defendant anywhere in the United
States. The limit under the old
rules was 100 miles from the place
of trial. Should the indigent de
fendant find it necessary to take
depositions, travel and subsistence
expenses incurred by his attorney
may be paid by the government at
the direction of the court. For the
first time also as a matter of uni
form federal rule the federal ap
pellate courts may dispense with
the printing of the record and re
view the case from the typewrit
ten transcript if the defendant is
unable to pay for the printing or
its cost may work a hardship up
on him.
Attorney General Clark explain
ed that the rules will be a great
assistance to the Government in
speeding up enforcement of crim
inal law. Henceforth a warrant of
arrest will be valid throughout
the entire United States instead
of only in the issuing district.
Criminal proceedings will no long
er abruptly come to an end with
the close of a term of court. Now,
within certain time limits, pro
ceedings begun in one term of
court may continue irrespective of
the end of the term.
“One of the most effective in
novations for speeding up crimin
al cases from the Government’s
standpoint,” Mr. Clark added “is
the provision that a defendant
may no longer cause delay by re
sisting removal from one judicial
district to another in the same
state.” If the defendant is found
in a state other than the one in
which the crime was committed,
but within a hundred miles of the
place where the warrant was is
sued, he may be arrested and
brought back and is now denied
the elaborate removal proceed
ings. Merely by crossing a state
line, or a district line inside a
state, the accused formerly was
able greatly to delay prosecution.
The Justice Department’s Crim
inal Division, of which Theron L.
Caudle is in charge as Assistant
Attorney General, assumed much
of the Department’s responsibility
for the formulation of the rules.
The Supreme Court which is the
promulgating authority appointed
an Advisory Committee to assist
it. Justice Alexander Holtzoff of
the District Court for the District
of Columbia, then Special Assist
ant to the Attorney General, serv
ed as Secretary of the Committee.
Much of the drafting of the Rules
was done during Attorney General
Clark’s incumbency as Assistant
Attorney General in charge of the
Criminal Division and now mate
rializes during his term as Attor
ney General.
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