Talk:Supreme Court of Virginia
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Removed prior comment made while not signed in. To clarify the reference to criminal law appeals was removed from the first paragraph, apparently out of confusion form the statutroy scheme that provided that ciminal appeals heard by the Court of Appeals are final in that Court. However, while this is true in principle, in practice almost one third of the criminal case heard in the Court of Appeals are appealed to the Supreme Court. While most are refused as lacking precedential value or a constitutional question, in recent years the Court has granted a larger number of these appeals. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VASupCtHist (talk • contribs)
[edit] Kentucky district
in 1783 when his first cousin, Harry Innes, was appointed to the Kentucky district of the Virginia Supreme Court.
—Thomas Todd article
This quote from the Thomas Todd article implies that the Court had broader jurisdiction at least around the time of the American Revolution, but the article does not seem to cover the geographical influence or "districts".
After the United States was formed, the entire states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, and portions of Ohio were all later created from the territory encompassed earlier by the Colony of Virginia.
—Colony of Virginia article
Given that the lifetime of the court encompasses some major political changes, this change in scope should be noted somehow. --Marcinjeske (talk) 09:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
