| Show russ have new court C burat system supreme tribunal with seat at moscow to have criminal civil and appeal branches the revolutionary tribunals aa which along with the dreaded chela cheka were instruments Instrument a of red terror during the borst period of the Wat evist revolution parsed passed into history the other day hen a new and permanent court system wa was inaugurated augu rated throughout WIL 1 bile founded upon line lines not unlike those of the court systems ey terns of some other Euro european countries the new russian court courts have some particularly communistic features tea turea all their own the supreme court of russia which will alt sit in moscow ww A have three b branc cb bee one 0 bo be for criminal tome one for civil and end the other a court of appeal there will be aleo also district court courts to try easel cases of local importance and the people court courts corresponding to police magistrates will operate in each village and city district to try minor offense Is I 1 chairman peter hka lawyer who wilo gained tame ae as the bolshevist dictator of latvia when riga was in the ban bands of the communists has been named gis chairman aman of the supreme court another lett IL 11 karkin wilt will be lilt hi assistant in the criminal civil and appeal branches however the en on pre preme e court judge judges are mostly men who bened in responsible positions in the revolutionary tribunals I 1 als all corn com tried and true jacob peters who bended beaded the cheka at veto grad during the red terror Is 18 one of the judges of the criminal depart ment AL kursky commissar of justice will be chief procurator or attorney gen eral in the new court system but the active prosecutor will be vladimir kirylenko Kry lenko formerly chairman of the revolutionary tribunals new now jury system A peculiar feature of the new system Is that a species of juror Is introduced trod there will be two of them in each case sitting beside the judge and having full power to question witnesses and end at attorney they will wilk retire with the judge to decide upon the guilt or innocence of the accused a majority vote of the three serving to convict or free the prisoner panels of these prospective ire jurymen are tire now being selected throughout rus ras sla sia the various trade unions and professional fess fes ional lonal organizations eions select them then from their own onn numbers and they must be ready to go into court at any time they are fire called upon the moscow quota of jurors Is to 4 when they eit sit in trials the jurymen are paid not by the tire government but by their emp employers loSers receiving the irre u ilar lar days wages ages for the time passed in court when the new court system Is in full swing it Is expected that most mot of the lawyers appearing will be men trained in the law courts of the old regime professional unions of law tro rs are being organ organized laed subject approval of the soviet authorities |
