4. Drastic State liquor law, with a special fee for prosecutors in liquor convictions. Beneficial effect with fee provision on enforcement very doubtful. 5. Condition of court dockets generally congested, both Federal and State. 6. Prosecuting attorney's office generally weak-need of men better equipped in experience, etc. 7. Change of venue is serious evil in Indiana. 8. Probation system: State law provides no adult probation system, except in Marion County, and only meager follow up on paroles. Probation notoriously weak, generally. 9. Liquor violations, state-wide, constitute the largest class numerically of any one other class of violations. Dismissals excessive. So-called continuances very excessive and suspended sentences excessive, with a notoriously inadequate probation or follow-up system. 10. A considerable prevalence of drinking among minor boys and the so-called middle or better class of adults. 11. Population: Foreign element large in a few counties and directly related to law-enforcement conditions. Report of work by prohibition administrator, fiscal year 1929. 454 Report of work by prohibition administrator, July, 1929, to February, 1930... 455 Statistics of United States attorney's office, fiscal year 1929, for State- 455 Statistics of United States attorney's office for northern judicial district, 455 Statistics of United States attorney's office, for southern judicial district, 455 Cooperation between Federal and State officers. 456 United States commissioners as inferior courts__. 458 Juries-Attitude of.. Des Moines and vicinity. Drinking-Increasing or decreasing-Generally and among young people. Sentences, heavy or light, as deterrent of crime.. State cases in Federal courts and Federal cases in State courts.. Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, and vicinity. Fort Dodge, Cedar Rapids, and vicinity. Dubuque and vicinity. Mason City Civil liabilities. 459 460 461 461 461 462 465 467 467 468 468 468 |