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THE CHAIRMAN: State the sentence so that there

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will be no misunderstanding.

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DELEGATE BAMBERGER: To remove the sentence which

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begins, on line 12, "All other criminal," and remove lines

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13, 14, and 15.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Scanlan.

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DELEGATE SCANLAN: Delegate Bamberger, you know

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my feelings on this general subject. You can remove with

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my hearty approval.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Henderson?

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DELEGATE HENDERSON: I am just a little doubtful

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about removing it. It seems to me that having dealt

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with the cases punishable by life imprisonment it was

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quite appropriate to provide that these others be covered,

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either by rule or by the General Assembly.

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It is quite inconceivable to me that either the

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law or the rule of the court could take away from any accused

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the right to a fair trial, and therefore that those two would

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have to be read together.

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In other words, it certainly would be the limi-

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tation, the minimum that the rules or the law could provide