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AUSTIN—Ten members of a
12-member jury can decide civil
cases under new rules of civil
litigation procedure adopted last
week by the State Supreme Court.
Unanimous verdicts are now re
quired of juries, and the change
is regarded as one of the most
far-reaching in many years.
An effort in the last Legisla
ture to authorize 10-2 jury ver
dicts fell under weight of defense
attorney opposition.
Retiring Supreme Court Chief
Justice Robert W. Calvert called
the revised rules “the greatest
reform measure during my term
(22 years) on the court.”
Rules deal with appeal motions,
depositions, evidence discovery
motions, and other matters.
Calvert said changes would do
away with some elements of the
adversary system and open up ev
idence. Rules will take effect
Feb. 1, 1973.
Unanimous verdicts still will
be required in criminal cases, but
in civil litigation 10 or more ju
rors can decide a case. Five-to-one
verdicts will be permitted in mu
nicipal, justice of the peace and
county courts at law where six-
man juries now decide cases.
Some attorneys said the key
rules change would eliminate hung
juries in civil cases, speed up
trials and ease the backlog of
civil cases jamming metropolitan
courts. Others said the changes
in discovery of evidence will re
duce the number of actual trials.
The latter change will allow all
parties to a case to see what both
sides have as evidence.
Another change would allow the
State Supreme Court to reverse
or modify a lower court finding
or enter a new decision without
awaiting formal arguments of
contesting parties.
trol to make purchases for politi
cal subdivisions and defining
“child” under juvenile court pro
cedures as one over 10 and under
17 years of age.
Key legislators began to ques
tion whether the variety of sub
jects permitted the focus of leg
islative and public attention on
insurance reform which Smith
claimed he wanted.
Big Port Coming?
Agenda Grows
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GALVESTON, Tex. — Human
volunteers who smoked marijuana
under laboratory conditions suf
fered sleep problems and impair
ment of decision-making, a pre
liminary study here shows.
Dr. Ernest Barratt of the Uni
versity of Texas Medical Branch
stressed the conclusions drawn
from the study were still prelim
inary. “We still have a lot more
to learn.”
The drug caused a decrease in
heavy sleep of the users, Barratt
said, about mid-way through the
10-day period. The decrease con
tinued for several days after they
quit.
Marijuana was smoked regu
larly by 14 young male adults—
all prior users and some holding
responsible professional positions
—for 10 days at a time.
WASHINGTON — Sweeping
power for President Nixon to cut
appropriated funds and hold
spending within $250 billion was
approved by the House Tuesday
night and sent to the Senate. The
221-163 vote was a major victory
for the Nixon administration and
a defeat for the House Demo
cratic leadership.
day after the arrival in the Chi
nese capital of the West German
foreign minister, Walter Scheel.
German sources had said ear
lier that the two nations would
try to increase trade between
their nations; facilitate industrial,
scientific and technological coop
eration, and start cultural and
other exchanges as part of the
normalization of their relations.
Gov. Preston Smith continued
to open the special session call to
new subject matter before any
final action was taken on compet
itive insurance rates or guberna
torial fiscal powers.
Last Tuesday he dropped 16
more bill proposals on lawmakers
for attention in a session due to
wind up October 17. Among them
were the following:
An $8 million appropriation for
a Fort Worth school for the men
tally retarded, changing hunting
and fishing license fees, allowing
bond financing of voting ma
chines in counties over one mil
lion population, allowing subdivi
sions to issue bonds for air con
trol facilities and lease the facil
ities to private interests, amend
ing retirement statutes to allow
credit for certain military, state
employment and judicial services,
allowing the State Board of Con-
Texas may be getting a new
offloading terminal for super
tankers whether the Legislature
approves a state commission to
plan and construct one or not.
Oil company spokesmen told a
joint House-Senate committee
they propose to have their own
facility (known as “seadock”) op
erative by 1975 or 1976 and feel
there is no need for a state ex
penditure.
A bill submitted by Governor
Smith to create a state authority
to formulate plans for the off
shore terminal won support of
many witnesses who claimed
vital segment of the Texas econ
omy depends on a superport’s be
ing constructed along the coast.
cations the total number of Tex
ans eligible may reach a record
4.8 million.
At that, however, the total per
centage of eligible voting age
Texans may be less than 1968
and 1970.
There are now about 7.5 mil
lion Texans of voting age. The
expected 4.5 million to 4.8 million
signup would represent a 60 per
cent showing. A 4 million regis
tration in 1968 and a 4.1 million
figure in 1970 amounted to about
64 per cent of the eligible popu
lation.
An estimated 660,000 voters
have been added to rolls since the
voting age was lowered. There
are an estimated 1.5 million now
eligible to vote who were not
eligible in the 1968 presidential
election.
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WASHINGTON — Chances for
Senate passage of. a tough anti
busing bill were' dealt Ar- W seyere -
blow Tuesday when the first move
to cut off debate fell 10 votes
short of the required two-thirds
majority. But later President Nix
on told four antibusing senators
he wants a yes or no vote on the
measure.
WASHINGTON — The chair
man of the House Banking Com
mittee Tuesday blamed President
Nixon for what he called a Re
publican attempt to “assassinate
an entire political party through
espionage.”
His remarka, came in response
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TOKYO — West Geimany and
China signed an agreement in
Peking Wednesday to establish
diplomatic relations, Peking’s of
ficial Hsinhua news agency re
ported.
The signing ceremony came a
KOPJE, Yugoslavia — Hungary
and the Soviet Union are tied
for first place at 35 points mid
way through the 13th round of
the Olympic chess finals.
The U.S. team is tied with East
Germany for eighth place with
23% points.
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