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Show SEEKS TO 111 PROMPTIIESS III TRIALS Judge Fred Crockett of I City Court Move for 1 Legislation Which Will ExpeditAppealActionj JI'Ik;K Freil (roikt-tt of the tiumu'ipiil rotlrt iniiilc t lie j Ktiirtliiiff disclosure today tlmt out of tin scored of convicted j men who have appealed their . :i.ej from the municipal court during i the piiKt three (Mm only three men have leen compelled lo serve lime. Aa n result of b!s Investigation lenis-jl.it lenis-jl.it ion will lie proposed nt the cominu stale legislature lo remedy the defect In the system which Judue Crockett has flisclnsed. Accord nit to the Judge, when a prisoner who is convicted in the municipal court obtnlns a lawyer and files notice of appeal he Is Riven thirty days in which to act. and ten days H also nllowed for the filing of the transcript with the diatrlct court. Very seldom one of these cases 'comes to trial within three months i after the conviction In the municipal i cult, according to .lutige t'rockett. I liiiriu this time the evidence in the, case often becomes dissipated: the; 'keenness nf the arre-linK officer' wanes; the witnesses disappear and by j I the time the ai lion rom' up for trial j only a weak case Is presented, which shrewd attorneys are able to combat successfully. In certain cases officera have been dismissed from the force, according to the judge, and do not appear when the case comes up in the district court. As a result. Judge Crockett has conferred con-ferred with other Judges and a meet-ing meet-ing to decide on appropriate legislation legisla-tion w-ili soon be held. Judge Crockett has proposed to expedite ex-pedite the-t'Hses by requiring that the trial ire the district court he held within with-in thirty days after the case leaves the municipal court. lie would cut down the tme of appeal lo ten daya and llie offering of the transcript to |