Jurisdiction in criminal matter replacing Court of Assize
1691 - Becomes the criminal circuit part of the Supreme Court of the Judicature
1822 - Jurisdiction to call grand juries to investigate all crimes and misdemeanors in the county
To try indictments found by grand jury and court of general sessions and to deliver the jail of the prisoners who had been taken into custody on criminal charges
As a supreme court part could send writs into another county
Abolished 1896 absorbed by Supreme Court - Criminal Part