从苏子英案透视革命年代的司法传统与变革

The Judicial Tradition and Reform in the Revolutionary Era from Su Ziying Case

新发现的司法档案显示,苏子英劫财杀人及脱逃案是在1941至1942年间,发生在陕甘宁边区的一桩影响性诉讼个案。考察该案的处理过程,可以一窥延安时期政府领导司法机关、司法服务政治任务以及天理国法人情贯通的革命法制传统。苏子英案在边区法制建设进程中具有重要意义,还在于其促成了有期徒刑最高刑期的改变,推动了死刑复核机构逐渐走向相对独立。革命年代的司法传统与变革尽管有其时代局限性,但仍不失为当下全面推进依法治国尤为值得珍视和弘扬的红色基因。

The newly discovered files show that Su Ziying’s robbery and murder and escape case was an influential litigation case that took place in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region between 1941 and 1942,Investigating the handling process of this case,we can see the revolutionary tradition of legal system in the Yan’an period,in which the government led the judicial organs to serve the political task of the judiciary and connected the natural principles and laws and human relations:Su Ziying’s case is of great significance in the process of legal construction in the border region,because it promoted the change of the maximum term of fixed-term imprisonment and promoted the death penalty review institution to become relatively independent gradually.Although the judicial tradition and reform in the revolutionary years have their limitations of The Times,they are still the red genes that should be cherished and carried forward to comprehensively promote the rule of law.