Commonwealth v. Leach

The chief question presented in these cases is whether St. 1923, c. 469, is constitutional. That statute, omitting a single section immaterial to the present inquiry, is printed below.* It provides that any judge of a district *469court, except of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, on written request by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court, shall sit in the Superior Court for the trial and disposition of designated violations of criminal law. Prosecutions for all these violations of law are within the final jurisdiction of district courts. The formalities prescribed by the statute have…