Wilson revamped Criminal Code
By MARTHA MANGELSDORF Kansan Staff Writer
Senate Bill No. 9, the new Kansas Criminal Code which contains the controversial abortion section, has passed both houses of the Kansas legislature and the amended form now awaits only the Governor's signature to become law.
The 109-page Code with its 226 sections is the product of
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nearly five years of work by a committee specially appointed by the state Judicial Council.
Paul E. Wilson, KU law professor and reporter and scribe for the Judicial Council's Criminal Code committee, made the initial recommendation for the entire revamping of the Code. When the committee began actual work, Wilson made the original drafts for each of the 14 articles and did all the redrafting, producing the final structure of Senate Bill No.9, the Criminal Code.
Wilson explained that prior to 1963 the Judicial Council was working on the Kansas Code of Civil Procedure, the rules governing proceedings in civil cases in Kansas courts.
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Wilson said he wrote to the Chief Justice of the Kansas
Recommended revamp
Supreme Court, recommending a committee begin revamping the state Criminal Code when work on the Code of Civil Procedure was complete. His recommendation was accepted and Wilson was appointed to serve on the Judicial Council committee.
The committee's work was the first comprehensive and systematic revision of Kansas Criminal Law since the original code was drafted by the first territorial legislature in 1855. The major objective was to simplify the law, Wilson explained.
Old law outdated
Many sections of the old Criminal Code, Wilson added, were inherited from common law and contain concepts not socially useful now.
Wilson prepared and presented orally and in writing the initial draft of the Code to the Judicial Council committee which consisted of lawyers from Kansas. The old Code had been examined, in depth, section by section and similar statutes of other states were reviewed.
When this session of the legislature opened, consideration of the Criminal Code was put on the calendar. Wilson made several trips to the capital to testify before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. He was frequently called and consulted by the legislators on different legislative concerns with the draft he presented.
Wilson testified
Wilson expressed satisfaction with the final measure passed by the 1969 legislature.
"It came out pretty much in the same form as drafted by the committee, with the senate Judiciary Committee making a few minor changes," Wilson said.
Wilson will continue work as a reporter and scribe liaison between the Judicial Council and the legislature as work continues on the revamping of the Code of Criminal Procedure, rules governing criminal court proceedings.
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