Indiana Bar Association

Scope and Contents Two items are in this collection. The Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence typed their 16-page report for the Indiana State Bar Association meeting in South Bend on July 8, 1932. They had recommendations to amend the criminal code, have "a state-use system for prison industries," and develop a plan of cooperation among law-enforcement personnel. Page 13 states: "Chief Morrissey of Indianapolis, and Superintendent Osborne of the state bureau, have been cooperating with the committee."...

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, articles, and research documents compiled by James E. Farmer from 1963 to 1982. The collection includes Farmer's articles about the Indiana judicial campaign of 1970 and the Sheriff-Term Amendment proposal of 1978; correspondence with Jerry Handfield, Indiana State Library librarian, regarding the oral history project; correspondence and "session sketches" for the Centennial History of the Indiana General...