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THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment having been
seconded, the Chair recog: zes Delegate Bamberger to
speak for the amendment.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: Section 5.06 authorizes th<
General Assembly to establish the nunber of judges, not
less than five, five or more judges who will sit on the
intermediate appellate court, so then the General Assembly
may decide there may be six or eight or any number of judge;
in excess of five.
The next section, 5.06, does not give the
General Assembly, but gives only the highest cort,
the Court of Appeals, the power to say, we have six
judges there. They need not all six sit together in any
one case. The business of that court is such that they
ought to divide into panels, into panels, let's say, of
three, and the Constitution or the proposed section 5.Ub
does Bay that th panels, the divisions of the court,
should be not less than three.
The purpose of the. amendment is to give also,
not exclusively, but to give also to the General Assembly
the right to say when it establishes the number of judges