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The courts of common pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state. The name derives from the medieval English court of Common Pleas. Pennsylvania established them in 1722. [ 1] They hear civil cases with a significant amount in controversy and trials for serious crimes. They have original jurisdiction over all cases not ...
Pike County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,535. [ 1] Its county seat is Milford. [ 2] The county is part of the Northeast Pennsylvania region of the state. [ a] Pike County is considered a micropolitan area in itself by the United States Census Bureau, known as the Hemlock Farms ...
The Commonwealth Court's headquarters is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with jurisdiction over administrative and civil public law. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania is the other intermediate appellate court in the Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System, having jurisdiction over criminal and private civil cases. The jurisdiction of the nine-judge ...
This is a list of former and current non-federal courthouses in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Each of the 67 counties in the Commonwealth has a city or borough designated as the county seat where the county government resides, including a county courthouse for the court of general jurisdiction, the Court of Common Pleas. Other courthouses are used by the three state-wide appellate courts ...
The county was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Allegheny County and named for Colonel William Crawford. [4] The county is part of the Northwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Crawford County comprises the Meadville, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Erie-Meadville, PA Combined Statistical Area.
NRHP reference No. 79002340 [ 1] Added to NRHP. July 23, 1979. Pike County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1873, and is a 2 1/2-story, eight bay by six bay, brick building in the Second Empire style. It features a projecting front section with pediment and a square cupola.
The Pennsylvania courts of common pleas are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction. There are 60 judicial districts, 53 of which comprise only one of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, and seven comprising two counties. Each district has from one to 93 judges. The courts of common pleas hear civil cases with an amount in controversy in excess ...
George Wagner IV exits the Pike County Common Pleas courtroom Nov. 30, 2022, just after being convicted on eight counts of aggravated murder and 14 other charges in the 2016 Pike County massacre case.