Q. What jury decides causes tried either in the Sessions or County
Court?
A. The Petit Jury, consisting of twelve men.
SUPREME COURT.
Q. What is the next higher court?
A. The Supreme Court.
Q. What are its divisions?
A. The Circuit, Oyer and Terminer, Special Term and General Term.
Q. For judicial convenience, the State has been divided into
districts, and how many?
A. Into eight judicial districts, numbered from one to eight,
inclusive.
Q. What are the officers called in this court?
A. Justices of the Supreme Court.
Q. How many are elected in each district?
A. Five each in the first and second districts, and four each in
the other six.
Q. How many Supreme Court Justices in the State?
A. Thirty-four.
Q. For how long a term are these Justices elected?
A. For fourteen years. Salary, $6,000, and an annual allowance for
expenses.
Q. What constitutional provision in regard to eligibility?
A. They cannot hold the office longer than the last day of
December next after they shall be seventy years of age.
Q. What are some of their duties?
A. To preside and try causes in the Circuit, Oyer and Terminer,
and also hear appeals in the Special Term, and when appointed
Judges of the General Term to hear and decide appeals there.
SPECIAL TERM.
Q. What is a Special Term?
A. A court held by one of the Supreme Court Judges in the district
simply for hearing and deciding motions and appeals.
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