Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-05-10
LAW INSTITUTE
STUDIES DOUBLE
JEOPARDY" REPORT
Committee Recommends
Uniformity and Adoption
by All Jurisdictions.
SUBJECT YEAR AGO
OF SHARP DISPUTE
Eleven New Members Of Council
to Be Named-Code Draft
Takes Is Years.

Continuing its study Of criminal
law, the American Law Institute today
heard a report, the result Of several
years study. on a restatement OF the
statute on double jeopardy.
The report. the work of commit
tee headed by William E. Mikell OF
the University of Pennsylvania. COW
cred variations in the statutes and
their interpretations in all OF the
States and asked that uniform law
be approved by the institute and rec
commended for adoption in all court
Jurisdictions in the entire country.
A similar report was submitted a
year ago, but a sharp controversy de-
veloped that caused it to be sent back
for additional study.
Later in the day or tomorrow the
institute is to select IL new members
OF the Council. its governing body.
The new councillors will succeed John
w. Davis, william v. Hodges, Robert
G. Dodge. Joseph c. Hutchinson. lr.:
Victor Morawetz. George Wildwood
Murray, Atlee Pomerene. Elihu Root.
Thomas I Parkinson, Henry Epson
Sims and Cornelius W. Wickersham.
Many Years Required.
Fifteen years probably will be re-
auired to carry out the wol'' Of draft
ing a new and uniform code of Grim
inal law in keeping with the SuggeS-
ton of President Roosevelt, the -Ad-
visory Committee on Criminal Justice
reported to the institute yesterday
through William Draper Lewis, the
director.
The task will be one Of such far
reaching effect that the legal pro-
fession will need the assistance of
sociologists criminologists. psychia-
trists, political scientists and other
non-legal experts, the committee re-
ported.
THE committee thoroughly can
vassed the question whether the prof.
ect OF the institute should be limited
to a code of substantive criminal law
or should 90 deeper and farther and
cover the administrative features, such
as the organization and functions OF
police agencies. prosecutors offices and
courts and penal and correctional pro-
visions. The committee has decided
upon the latter alternative" the report
stated
This task. the institute was told.
will 60 beyond the restatement of the
law, which was begun several years
ago. but will actually set up a specific
code Of what the criminal law should
BE-
"A criminal code of the kind en-
visaged by the committee cannot be
completed in two or three years" the
report continued. Theoretically there
is hardly any limit to the ramifica-
lions Of an enterprise of such magni-
tude. 1t seems to the committee,
however, that useful results Of pre-
liminary exploratory nature could not
be obtained in less than two years;
and that it would be wise to plan for
= period of approximately IS years.
with the expectation that by the end
OF such time the major portions of
the code will be completed"
Signers of Report.
The report was signed by Justin
Miller. Assistant Attorney General, as
chairman, and the following members:
Newton D. Baker Sanford Bates, direc-
tor OF Federal prisons; Joseph H.
Beale. Harvard Law School; Alfred
Bettman, Cincinnati; E. w. Burgess.
University of Chicago; Bernard Glueck,
New York; Sheldon Glueck, Harvard
Law School; Leonard v. Harrison, New
York; Charles E. Hughes. jr., New
York; Raymond C. Moley. New York;
Charles C. Mott. jr, New York;
Timothy N. Pfeiffer, New York;
Thorsten Sellin, University Of Pennsyl-
vania: Edwin. H. Sutherland. Uni
versity of Chicago; Frederic M.
Thrasher. New York University: Judge
Joseph N. Ulman. Baltimore: John
Barker Waite. University of Michigan
Law School. and John H. Wigmore.
Northwestern University Law School.
Later in the day the institute took
up reports on the restatement OF laws
affecting property.
A reception and tea was planned for
o'clock today in the Chinese room
ut the Mayf1ower.
Tomorrow evening the annual BAN
quet will be held, with Justice Fletcher
Riley of the Oklahoma Supreme Court,
former Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massa-
ehusetts and John Dickinson, Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce, as the
speakers.