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Some records of the court date from 1671. An act in 1785 established courts in every county. [2] The current South Carolina Circuit Court has two divisions – the civil division, called the Court of Common Pleas, and the criminal division, called the Court of General Sessions.
A divided Smyrna Town Council decided Tuesday to ask voters if they want to eliminate local General Sessions Court.. The council voted 5-2 to hold a March 5 referendum during the presidential primary.
The county by state law must provide General Sessions Court. The Smyrna council would retain the Municipal Court that collects town revenues from traffic and code violations.
In 1869, he campaigned to become McMinn County's delegate to the 1870 constitutional convention that would create the present state constitution, but the county chose Colonel Archibald Blizard. [18] Bridges died in Athens on March 16, 1873, following an illness that had lasted for several months. [19] He is interred at Cedar Grove Cemetery in ...
McMinn County was created in 1819 from Indian lands and was named in honor of Joseph McMinn (1758–1824). [1] McMinn was a militia commander during the Revolutionary War, a member of the territorial legislature, speaker of the state senate, and eventually governor of the state of Tennessee.
The primary election for general sessions court clerk candidates will be the only Shelby County-wide ballot measure in 2024 and is packed full of hopeful candidates. Incumbent Joe W. Brown has ...
Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States [8] and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidistantly between the major cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga. [9]
The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of predatory policing, police brutality , political corruption , and voter ...