11 legal system, at least insofar as criminal and procedural lawis concerned, was indeed relatively insignificant. Finland’s political situation as part of Russia did, however, influence constitutional interpretations and conceptions throughout the Autonomy.^’ The fact that the constitutional, “legalist” ideology came to have an impact on the particular mode which the theories of legal interpretation and legal sources assumed and, consequently, on the way the law of proof was presented in jurisprudence as compared to judicial practice will be discussed in Chapter 16. 30 Tyynilä has shown that Russians had interest in the Finnish criminal law reform that ended in the promulgation of the Code of 1889; as to the actual contents of the Code, their import was, however, nonexistant. Moreover, there were Russian-originated attempts at a codification of various branches of Finnish law, including the criminal, in the 1830s and 1840s; however, they never came to bear fruit. Tyynilä 1989. The Russian czar’s decision to commute all death sentences to Siberian banishments in 1826, as part of a general Russian policy, did have a remarkable effect on the Finnish penal system. That year, the last death sentences in peace time were carried out in Finland. Jussila 1969, especially pp. 191-196.
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