Rules of Criminal Procedure for the District Courts of the United States: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session on H. R. 4587 |
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administration of criminal adopted American Bar Association authority to prescribe BARNES bill cedure Chairman CHANDLER CHAUNCEY W civil practice civil procedure civil rules committee common law Congress criminal appellate procedure criminal law defendant district courts drafting EMANUEL CELLER Federal courts Federal criminal procedure gentlemen Georgia U. S. Government GRESHAM GUYER GWYNNE HATTON W HOBBS HOLTZOFF House of Delegates including verdict indictment judge judicial power JUDICIARY jurisdiction jury justice law and equity lawyers legislature Major Tolman MASSINGALE matter MCMAHON MICHENER objection plea of guilty prescribe rules procedure with respect promulgate proposal provision question respect to criminal ROBINSON ROBSION rule-making power rules of civil rules of pleading rules of procedure SPRINGER statement substantive law Supreme Court thing tion title 28 trial U. S. Code uniform rules United States attorneys United States authority VANDERBILT voir dire WALTER WALTER CHANDLER witnesses ZEBULON WEAVER
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Page 2 - Examined in the most favorable light, the provision is a mere jumble of federal law, common law, and state law, consisting of incongruous and irreconcilable regulations, which in legal effect amounts to no more than a direction to a judge sitting in such a criminal trial to conduct the same as well as he can, in view of the three systems...
Page 13 - Cases be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "(3) Except in capital cases a motion for a new trial solely upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence may be made within sixty (60) days after final judgment, without regard to the expiration of the term at which judgment was rendered, unless an appeal has been taken and in that event the trial court may entertain the motion only on remand of the case by the appellate court for that purpose, and such remand may be made at any time...
Page 1 - Under such a system there exists an inevitable element of uncertainty and confusion.