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Book Notes, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.

Book Notes

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.

Book Notes

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.

'Recent Social Trends In The United States" Report Of The President's Research Committee, Robert Cooley Angell

Michigan Law Review

Never before has a particular civilization taken so complete an inventory of its own activities as that presented in the two-volume Report of the President's Research Committee on Social Trends. Its more than 1600 pages are literally crammed with significant data regarding almost every conceivable aspect of American life, data gathered with great care and thoroughness by research men of unquestioned ability and scholarly standing.

Criminal Law And Procedure - Sufficiency Of Information

Michigan Law Review

In an information for murder, after a definite statement of time and place it was charged that the defendant "did then and there . . . shoot, wound and kill" the deceased. On appeal from the order of the lower court overruling his demurrer to the information, the defendant contended that the information was defective in that it failed to allege death within a year and a day or that the deceased died in the county where the information was filed. Held, both time and place were sufficiently stated and the demurrer was properly overruled. State v. Stone, …

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law.

The Value Of Sociology To Law, Robert C. Angell

Michigan Law Review

There has been a good deal said about a sociological approach to law and, as time goes by, more and more attempts are being made to turn words into action. There is a definite trend toward the tise of the sociologist, his research methods, his findings, or his body of principles by those concerned with the law. It may not be amiss, therefore, for a sociologist to inquire what the possibilities of this trend really are. Though, in certain respects, he may be less well equipped for this task than the student of law, he at least has the advantage …

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law.

Reports For The Law School For The Academic Year, 1932-37, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Reports to the President of the University from the Dean of the Law School.

Years included are 1932-33, 1934-35, 1935-36, and 1936-37.

The Right To Comment On The Failure Of The Defendant To Testify, Andrew A. Bruce

Michigan Law Review

In 1931 the American Law Institute adopted a resolution to the effect that "The judge, the prosecuting attorney and counsel for the defense may comment upon the fact that the defendant did not testify."

In the same year the American Bar Association resolved: "That by law it should be permitted to the prosecution to comment to the jury on the fact that a defendant did not take the stand as a witness; and to the jury to draw the reasonable inferences."

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law.

Judicial Examination Of The Accused-A Remedy For The Third Degree, Paul G. Kauper

Michigan Law Review

In its report on "Lawlessness in Law Enforcement" the Wickersham Commission concludes that in the police systems of a number of American municipalities the "third degree" is very generally practiced as a means of extorting from accused persons under arrest confessions, incriminating statements, and other information of value to the police. The conclusion of the Commission confirms the results of private investigation made in the same field. It is true that the. methods of inquiry pursued by the Commission leave doubt as to the accuracy of some of the facts reported. But the quality of the evidence submitted as the …

Criminal Law In Russia, Pendelton Howard

Michigan Law Review

A Review of SOVIET ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL LAW. By Judah Zelitch.

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and related subjects (e.g. economics, business, finance, sociology, government, etc.) which are of possible value to the legal profession.

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and related subjects (e.g. economics, business, finance, sociology government etc.) which are of possible value to the legal profession.

Front Matter, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Front Matter for Volume 30, Issue 6 of Michigan Law Review

Criminal Law - Federal Removal Proceedings - Conclusiveness Of The Indictment

Michigan Law Review

A vexatious question, and one which frequently arises in proceedings for removal from one federal district to another for trial, is to what extent the courts will go in weighing the force of the evidence against the accused. The government, when asking removal, presents to the court or commissioner a copy of the indictment found in the district to which removal is asked, and frequently rests on this, after giving evidence that the defendant is the party named in the indictment. The defendant, on the other hand, usually presents a mass of evidence, relevant and irrelevant, in an endeavor to …

English Criminal Prosecutions, John B. Waite

Michigan Law Review

A review of CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND, A STUDY IN LAW ADMINISTRATION. By Pendleton Howard.

An Extravagant Account

Michigan Law Review

A review of OUR LAWLESS POLICE. By Ernest Jerome Hopkins.

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current books on law and related subjects (e.g. economics, business, finance, sociology, government, etc.) which are of possible value to the legal profession.

The Recognition Of Russia, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

Revolution in Russia culminated, on March 15, 1917, in the abdication of the Romanoffs and the establishment of the Provisional Government. In November, 1917, the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviki and the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic was proclaimed. Thus in nine turbulent months authority in Russia passed from the autocracy of the Czars, through the ineffective hands of the moderates, to extreme radicals frankly committed to communism and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The Courts, The Press, And The Public, Stuart H. Perry

Michigan Law Review

It was with especial gratification that I accepted this invitation to speak. It is a pleasure to be with you, and it affords me an opportunity to contribute to a discussion of matters that are of great importance to your profession and my own and to the public. Perhaps I should not thus separate myself from your profession. I am still at least nominally a member of the bar, and though it is many years since I last appeared in court I have a keen and sympathetic interest in legal matters and enjoy my contacts with the bench and bar …

Book Notes And Notices

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to list and, when possible, describe briefly current, books on law and related subjects (e.g. economics, business, finance, sociology, government, etc.) which are of possible value to the legal profession.

Report On The Cost Of Crime, Herbert F, Taggart

Michigan Law Review

The full title of the twelfth report of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement is "Report on the Cost of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States." A more descriptive title, suggested by the actual content of the report, would be "The Economic Consequences of Crime." The report constitutes a volume of 657 pages, of which the report proper covers 453 pages, and various appendices make up the balance. For the hasty reader the most essential parts are the first eight pages, constituting the Commission's comments, and the summary and recommendations, of Messrs. Goldthwaite H. Dorr and …

Report On Prosecution, Rollin M. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

The logical starting point was the discovery and restatement of existing knowledge and information on these subjects, and because of the tremendous mass of material which has appeared in the form of surveys and reports within the last decade and a half, it was deemed wise to enlist the services of an expert in such matters. The analysis which he has produced, let it be added, amply justifies the Commission in his selection.

Report On Criminal Statistics, Lent D. Upson

Michigan Law Review

Among the reports of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, probably none received so little public attention as that on criminal statistics. Statistics, even of the criminal variety, are dull at the best, and not calculated to whet the imagination. One murder may be the basis of a printed volume of gory details and misleading clues with everybody suspected from the parish curate to the author himself. But murders by the gross or bale leave all unmoved except the most hardened editorial commentator.

Report On Criminal Procedure, Rollin M. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

During the period of trial by battle such a proceeding served, in addition to its nominal purpose, something of the function which is now served by a World's Series ball game. From that time to this, the trial has been the spectacular aspect of the enforcement of justice in general and of criminal justice in particular. The result has been relative overemphasis upon criminal procedure in the strictly technical sense, and a corresponding neglect of the broader problems of administration. If, for instance, a conviction under a statute making it grand larceny to steal "a cow or animal of the …

Report On The Causes Of Crime, Kenneth Sears

Michigan Law Review

The Report of the Commission, together with a number of special reports of individuals and groups concerning various features of the problem of the causes of crime, is in two large volumes of about four hundred pages each.

The Initiation Of Criminal Prosecutions By Indictment Or Information, Raymond Moley

Michigan Law Review

One of the most pronounced changes in criminal procedure proposed by the new criminal code prepared under the direction of and approved by the American Law Institute is that which proposes "all offenses heretofore required to be prosecuted by indictment may be prosecuted either by indictment or information.'' This would radically affect the present criminal procedure of one-half of the states. In twenty-four states prosecution of practically all cases may now be by information. The reform thus officially proposed by the Institute has been widely recommended by commissions and committees interested in the reform of criminal procedure. In many of …

The Scope Of Judicial Review, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

There was nothing known to the common law which was, or could properly be called, a true appeal from one court to another, and this was so in England until the judicature act of 1873. There were, however, certain imperfect and restricted methods by which some sort of redress could be had for an unjust decision.