HC Deb 29 June 1877 vol 235 cc486-7
MR. C. W. WYNN

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If the Judges do not go Circuit with a Commission of General Gaol Delivery; and, if this be so, whether he is aware that the Lord Chief Baron has declined at the approaching Assizes for Montgomeryshire to try prisoners committed to the Quarter Sessions; although, on the present occasion, the Assizes will precede the Quarter Sessions?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS,

in reply, said, he believed that in the case of all the Circuits, except the Northern and the North-Eastern, there was a commission of general gaol delivery, which would embrace all prisoners, whether committed to the Assizes or to the Quarter Sessions. He was not aware that the Lord Chief Baron had declined to try prisoners committed to the Quarter Sessions.