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Show REFORM DF CRIMINAL EHFJ SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 21 (UP) Important measures and opinions involving the personal income tax, the criminal code, the state's finances, and joint rules were under consideration today by both houses of the 19th legisT b.ture after a protracted ' Session late yesterday. Far reaching criminal code reform re-form Is sought in four measures introduced by Representative Will ' Holt, Nephi. These bills provide: 1. In all . cases except those in which the defendant could be sentenced sen-tenced to death a three-fourths majority of the verdict would be sufficient for conviction. 2 Except where the penalty is a fine, a defendant who has been convicted and sentenced, cannot be admitted to bail pending his appeal. ap-peal. 3. Court and counsel would be given the right to comment on a defendant's failure to testify on his own behalf. . 4. Gives the court the right to make, such comment on the testimony testi-mony and credibility of witnesses as he sees fit. The legislature has been in for m-.ed m-.ed that the- Utaii-Idaho Canning ' Crop Growers' association, representing repre-senting Cache, Morgan and Summit Sum-mit counties, is not satisfied with the tax commission's form of an -' ' income tax. The house is considering a bill empowering the governor to appoint ap-point a congressman in event of death of the incumbent or a tie vote in an election. The income tax measure reached the senate floor and immediately ' 1 precipitated an argument. This bill is being introduced by the code commission. Amendment Loses Senator Burton W. Musser suggested sug-gested an amendment to the rules whereby only senators can introduce intro-duce bills in the senate. The measure meas-ure lost. The tax bill was sent to the printer's office. The question of whether or not W. D. Hammond is entitled to his scat in the house is still at issue. The house committee on elections was considering the arguments aguinst Hammond as advanced by the Utah State Press association. A decision will be reached late today. |