1901_public laws_30_26
CHAPTER 29 An act supplemental to and amendatory of an act ratified on March 11,1901, entitled An act to provide for the division of the State into Judicial Districts and for holding the courts therein. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That the cases now pending in or returnable to the criminal courts of any county are hereby transferred to the Superior Courts of the counties in which the respective cases are pending or to which they are returnable; and all recognizances, subpcenas, capiases or process issued and now in the hands of the Sheriff or of any other officer, and all papers, recognizances, subpenas, capiases, process or obligation hereafter issued or taken by any officer of the law shall be issued, taken and made returnable to the next succeeding criminal term of the Superior Court of the respective counties.