Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-19
ARTICLE v.
TIE JUDICIARY.

SECTION /. The judicial power of this
Commonwealth shall be vested in the Su-
preme Court, in courts of common pleas
courts OF oyer and termner and general
jail delivery, courts OF quarter sessions of
the peace. orphans courts, magistrates
courts, and in such other courts as the Gen.
eral Assembly may from time 10 time ..stab-
lish.
See. 2. The Supreme Court shall consist
of seven judges, who shall be elected by the
unalified electors OF the State at large They
shall hold their offices for the term of
twenty-one years, II they SO long behave
themselves well, but shall aot be again ELI
gible. The judge whose commission shall
nrst expire shall be chief justice, and there
after each judge whose commission shall
first expire shall in turn he chief justice.
Sec 3. The jurisdiction Of the Supreme
Court shall extend over the State, and the
judges thereof shall, by virtue Of their OF
fees, be justices of oyer and terminer and
general jail delivery i'm the several counties: :
they shall nave original jurisdiction in cases
OF injunction, and where a corporation is n
party defendant, OF habcas corpus. of NAN
DAMGS 10 courts of inferior Jurisdiction .
and OF QUo wARkASTe as TO all officers of
the Commonwealth whose Jurisdiction ex-
tends over the state, but shall rot exercise
any other original Jurisdiction they shall
have appellate Jurisdiction by appeal, cER-
TIoRARI or writ OF error in all cases as is
now OF may hereafter be provided by law.
Sec. 4. Until otherwise directed by law.
the courts OF common pleas shall continue
as at present established, except as herein
at any time, he included in one judicial dis
trict orgsnized for said courts.
Sec, ,. Whenever "A co.-nty shall contain
forty Thousand inhabitants il shall consti-
tute separate judicial district, and shall
elect one judge learned ia the law and the
General Assembly shall provide Tor adtii-
ilonal judges, as the business of the said dis
trict may require. Counties containing a
population less than is sufficient to consti-
tute separate districts shall be formed into
conv, nient single districts or. II necessary.
may be attached 10 contiguous districts as
the General Assembly may provide The
Office OF associate judge. not learned in the
law, Is abolished in counties forming seIsa-
rate districts: but the several associate
Judges IN Office when this constitution shall
be adopted shall serve for their unexpirel
terms.
Sec. 8. In the counties of PHILADELPHIA
and Allegheny, all the Jurisdiction and
powers now vested in the district Courts and
courts OF Common Pleas, subject TO such
changes AS may bv made by this constitu-
tlon or by law, shall be in Philadelphia vest
rd In four, and in Allegheny in two distinct
ana separate courts of equal and co-ordi-
nate jurisdiction, compost a Of three judges
eacn, The said courts in Philadelphia shall
he designated respectively as the Court OF
Common Pleas numbsr one, number two.
numoer three and number four. and in Ale
gheny as The Court OF Common Pleas num-
Der one and number two, but the number Of
saia courts may be by law increased, from
time 10 time, and shall lie i'll like MANNER