Hakki v. Faux

Respectfully, I dissent. Art. VIII, sec. 7 of our Constitution says that “The Dis*136trict Court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters civil and criminal, * * *.” This provision should end the “matter,” since this case is a criminal “matter.” (Emphasis added.)

In my book “original” means “original,” — not derivative, appellate, collateral, supplemental, adjunctive or remotely related.

A web of indecision seems to have been spun by some cases cited in the main opinion enmeshed, but nonetheless, not crushed the life from the Jardine case by any overruling of it. No fine distinction as to…