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Singer to speak to the amendment.
DELLGATE SINGLR: Mr. Chairman, ladies and
gentlemen of the Convention, this amendment is designed
for the sole purpose of eliminating the number of
judges to sit on the Court of Appeals; that it be fixed
in the Constitution and allowing further constitutionality
should the need arise to increase the number of judges to
six.
The Constilu-tion of 1867 provides for eight
judges on the C'out of Appeals, with four constituting
a quorum. This was changed in 1944 to a total number of
five judges on the Court of Appeals, of which tlirce
constituted a quorum. This was again changed in I960 to
provide for an increase in the number of judges to seven,
with five being a quorum, the present system under which
we operate.
It is obvious from the committee draft that
the intermediate Court of Appeals is conceived to be
expanded or have its jurisdiction expanded so as to in
the future, with the increasing case load on the court,
take part of that burden away from the Court of Appeals. |
