Rollin M. Perkins; Teacher of Law for Six Decades

Rollin M. Perkins, 103, who taught law for six decades and wrote the widely used law school textbook, “Perkins on Criminal Law.” Born March 15, 1889, in Lawrence, Kan., he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1910 and from Stanford University Law School in 1912. With time out for service in World War I as an Army lieutenant, Perkins taught at the University of Iowa Law School from 1916 to 1946. He later taught criminal law at Stanford, Vanderbilt, UCLA and UC’s Hastings College of the Law. His Hastings students had given him a license plate reading “Suppose,” the word with which Perkins began each class. He had retired to Davenport, Iowa, but was in Los Angeles to visit relatives at the time of his death. On March 13 in Los Angeles.