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the modern conception and status of good government in relation to citizenship and public officials. The next two chapters deal with the election of city officials. Then comes

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The Southwestern Political Science Association

PRESIDENT

C. B. AMES, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT
GEORGE B. DEALEY, Dallas, Texas

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
F. F. BLACHLY, Norman, Oklahoma

THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT
D. Y. THOMAS, Fayetteville, Arkansas

SECRETARY AND TREASURER
F. M. STEWART, Austin, Texas

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

PRESIDENT C. B. AMES, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
EX-PRESIDENT A. P. WOOLDRIDGE, Austin, Texas
EX-PRESIDENT GEORGE VAUGHAN, Little Rock, Arkansas
VICE-PRESIDENT GEORGE B. DEALEY, Dallas, Texas
VICE-PRESIDENT F. F. BLACHLY, Norman, Oklahoma
VICE-PRESIDENT D. Y. THOMAS, Fayetteville, Arkansas
EDITOR OF QUARTERLY, H. G. JAMES, Austin, Texas
SECRETARY AND TREASURER F. M. STEWART, Austin, Texas
E. T. MILLER, Austin, Texas
J. P. COMER, Dallas Texas.

ELECTED MEMBERS

THE SOUTHWESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY is supplied to all members of the Southwestern Political Science Association. The subscription price of the QUARTERLY is two dollars a year. Applications for membership, orders for the QUARTERLY and remittances should be addressed to F. M. Stewart, Secretary-Treasurer of the Association, University Station, Austin, Texas.

Correspondence with reference to contributions to the QUARTERLY should be addressed to F. M. Stewart, Editor in Charge, University Station, Austin, Texas.

THE

SOUTHWESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE

VOL. III

QUARTERLY

SEPTEMBER, 1922

No. 2

The editors disclaim responsibility for views expressed by contributors to THE QUARTERLY

THE COURTS OF THE SOUTHWEST1

C. PERRY PATTERSON

University of Texas

Their Organization

The general scheme of courts for the southwestern states consists of a differentiated set of courts, very loosely related in both jurisdiction and administration, beginning at the bottom with the justice of peace courts and ending at the top with supreme courts which exercise primarily appellate jurisdiction with the power to issue the usual mandatory and remedial writs necessary to enforce their jurisdiction. There are important differences in the organization of the intermediate courts. In Texas and Louisiana there are separate appellate courts subordinate to the supreme courts. In Texas and Oklahoma there are separate courts of criminal appeals, which are really supreme courts since they exercise final jurisdiction in criminal cases. There are no county courts in Louisiana and no district courts in Arizona and Arkansas. In New Mexico there is no county court of the usual type, but instead a probate court whose jurisdiction is coextant with the county. In Arizona, there is a superior court in each county, which is a sort of expanded county court or an abridged district court, but its territorial jurisdiction is restricted to the county. In Arkansas there are circuit courts instead of district courts. There are no

1Paper read at the Third Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, Norman, Oklahoma, March 25, 1922.

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