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2 Miss. Law. 1 (1955)

handle is hein.barjournals/misly0002 and id is 1 raw text is: The MISSISSIPPI LAWYER Published by the Mississippi State Bar Volume 2 January, 1955 No. 1 RULES OF BOARD OF BAR ADMISSION The 1954 session of the legislature saw the enactment of an entirely new set of requirement for admission to the bar. Under this new act the Board of Bar Ad- missions has the power to set up rules governing applications. Printed here are the rules as promulgated by this board: Rule I. Board of Bar Admissions Section 1. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum. A Chairman and Vice-chairman shall be annually elect- ed. Rule II. Forms Section 1. All applications for exami- nation or admission, and proofs in con- nection therewith shall be prepared and submitted in duplicate on official forms prescribed by the Board. Proofs for which an official form is not prescribed shall be submitted in the manner and form as the Board may direct. Official forms prescrib- ed by the Board will be supplied by the Secretary of the Board upon request. Rule II. Moral Character Section 1. The Board may, in addition to the requirements of Section 8653, Code of 1942, require further evidence as to good moral character of any applicant if deemed advisable so to do. Section 2. Applicants for examination who have not resided in the state for a period of at least five (5) years preceding the filing of application shall, in addition to other evidence of good moral character, furnish a character report from the Nat- ional Conference of Bar Examiners, 510 Equitable Building, Denver, Colorado. Section 3. A false statement knowingly made by any person in an application for examination, connivance at any false state- ment made in any affidavit or certificate which may be submitted in connection therewith, or complicity in any fraud Continued on page 5, column 1 NOTICE Annual Convention - Mississippi State Bar-Edgewater Gulf Hotel, June 25, K4 25, IO55. b Traffic Conference To Be At University Judge Joe M. Hill of Dallas, Texas, As- sistant Director of the Traffic Court Pro- gram of the American Bar Association met with State Bar officials, judges of several State courts, municipal officers of Jackson, representatives of the State High- way Patrol, and other law enforcement officers, in the office of the Secretary of the Mississippi State Bar on Friday, De- cember 17, 1954. Traffic Courts and methods of handling traffic violations were discussed at length. It was the consensus of opinion that a Traffic Conference on a state-wide level should be held in Mississippi. The group voted unanimously to con- duct such a conference at the University of Mississippi on February 28, March 1-2, 1955, under the sponsorship of the Missis- sippi State Bar, Municipal Officers As- sociation, and other interested groups. This action was taken in response to a resolution adopted by the Conference of Chief Justices on September 15, 1951, which resolution was endorsed by the National Conference of Governors the fol- lowing year. The resolution is as follows: Resolved That: 1. The local courts of first instance have greater opportunities and therefore great- er responsibilities than any other courts for (1) safeguarding life and limb from automobile accidents, and (2) promoting respect for law on which free government necessarily depends. 2. All trial courts of first instance in the state should be fully integrated into the judicial system of the state and wherever necessary a reorganization of the state- wide system of court should be undertaken to accomplish this objective. 3. Uniform procedure regulating civil and criminal practice in all trial courts of first instance within a state should be promulgated by the agency charged with the responsibility for preparing rules of procedure. 4. In each state where the chief justice or some administrative official designated by him is authorized to supervise the work of the trial courts of first instance, he should collect, collate and publish judicial statistics relating to the work of such court, to obtain efficency, uniformity and simplicity of procedure therein. 5. Suitable court rooms are as essential to the dignity and effectiveness of local courts of first instance as they are to all other courts; each state should by statute require suitable court rooms for every court, and it should be the duty of an ad- ministrative judge or official in each state to supervise the work of complying with such requirements. 6. Trial courts of first instance having traffic and other jurisdiction should ar- range separate sessions for the handling of traffic cases and dispose of them at a dif- ferent time than other criminal business. 7. Each state should require the attend- ance of all judges of trial courts of first instance and of public prosecutors assign- ed to such courts at an annual judicial conference of such courts for the purpose of discussing their current problems and of being instructed with respect thereto. 8. The evil of traffic ticket Fixing should be eradicated, and a non-fixable uniform traffic violations ticket similar to those used in Michigan and New Jersey should be adopted by each state and the police required to use it. 9. It is improper for either a police of- ficer testifying in a case or the judge hear- ing the case to act as prosecutor in any contested case, and in all such cases it is advisable that there should be a public prosecutor to represent the state. 10. Because of the increasing toll of highway accidents, trial courts of first instance should require all persons charg- ed with moving violations to appear in court in person, and the traffic judges should increase the amount of individual attention given to each case of such na- ture for the purpose of assessing adequate corrective penalties, and that, if neces- sary, steps be taken to add additional Continued on page 3, column 1