58 MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. IV.
Jurisdiction
on motions. |
session thereof, and in vacation, or in chambers, before any
of the said judges; and shall also have jurisdiction to hear
and determine all motions for a new trial in cases tried in
any of said courts, where such motions arise either, on ques-
tions 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 several courts; and the said Supreme Bench of Balti-
more 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 de-
cided 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 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
where such motions arise, either on questions of fact or for
misdirection upon any matters of law, and all motions in ar-
rest of judgment, or upon any matters of law, determined by
the said judge, and all such motions shall be heard and de-
termined within thirty days after they are made.]*
Dykes vs. Banks, 31 Md., 239. Both vs. House of Refuge, 31 Md.,
329. Merrick vs. B. & 0. R. R. Co., 33 Md., 481. Gibbons vs. Cherry,
53 Md., 144.
SEC. 34. No appeal shall lie to the Supreme Bench of Bal- |
Appeals from
Justices. |
timore City from the decision of the judge or the judges hold-
ing 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 Bal-
timore City.
SEC. 35. Three of the judges of said Supreme Bench of |
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Quorum. |
Baltimore City shall constitute a quorum of said court.
SEC. 36. All causes depending, at the adoption of this |
Cases pend-
ing. |
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-
*Thus amended by the Act of 1870, Chapter 177, as provided by Section 39
of Article 4 of the Constitution. |
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