Supreme Court of North Carolina July 5, 1810 (State v. . Patterson)

Locke, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court:

The act of 1806, ch. 2, declares, “that the State shall be divided into six judicial circuits.: that a Superior ■Court shall be held at the court-house in, each county in the State, twice in every year ; which Courts shall have the same jurisdiction that the present Superior Courts of Law and Courts of Equity now have and exercise.