holding of as many general terms as the performance of its
duties may require, such general terms to be held by not
less than three Judges; to make all needful rules and regu-
lations for the conduct of business in each of the said Courts
during the session thereof, and in vacation, or in Chambers,
before any of said Judges;* and shall also have jurisdiction
to hear and determine all motions for a new trial in cases
tried in the Criminal Court, where such motions arise
either on questions of fact, or for misdirection upon any
matters of law, and all motions in arrest of judgment, or
upon any matters of law determined by the said Judge or
Judges, while holding said Criminal Court; and the said
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City shall make all needful
rules and regulations for the hearing before it of all said
matters; and the same right of appeal to the Court of
Appeals shall be allowed from the determination of the
said Court on such matters, as would have been the right
of the parties if said matters had been decided by the Court
in which said cases were tried. The Judge before whom
any case may hereafter be tried, in either the Baltimore
City Court, the Superior Court of Baltimore City or in the
Court of Common Pleas, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to
hear and determine; and the said Judge shall hear and
determine all motions for a new trial, when such motions
arise, either on questions of fact or for misdirection upon any
matters of law; and all motions in arrest of judgment or upon
any matters of law determined by the said Judge; and all such
motions shall be heard and determined within thirty days
after they are heard.

SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City from the decision of the Judge or the Judges
holding the Baltimore City Court in case of appeal from a
Justice of the Peace; but the decision by said Judge or
Judges shall be final; and all writs and other process issued
out of either of said Courts, requiring attestation, shall be
attested in the name of the Chief Judge of the said Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City.

SEC. 35. Three of the Judges of said Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City shall constitute a quorum of said Court.

SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this
Constitution, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the
Court of Common Pleas, the Criminal Court of Baltimore,
and the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, shall be proceeded
in, and prosecuted to final judgment or decree, in the Courts,
respectively, of the same name established by this Constitu-
tion; except cases belonging to that class, jurisdiction over

*Amended by Act of 1870, Chapter 177.