Cornell Witcher v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• legislative proposal authorizing Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to transfer trial of criminal cases from one county to an adjoining county does not violate art. 13, citing Parker
• this court has struck down delegation of legislative or executive powers to judiciary where delegated powers are not closely related to customary judicial activities or to operation of courts
• inherent authority of judiciary not limited to adjudications, but includes ancillary functions, such as rule-making and judicial administration necessary to carry out the judiciary’s constitutional mandate
• bill empowering Chief Justice of this court “to transfer or authorize the transfer of cases from one county to an adjoining county would not contravene art. 13”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).