Excerpt from Efficiency in the Administration of Criminal Justice Address: Before the New York State Bar Association, January 12 The earlier court system of the United States was adopted at atime when the thirteen states had no greater population than New York City has today. In the pioneer days, a judge was assigned to a county or to a district. He handled all sorts of litigation, civil and criminal, and traveled from county to county holding terms of court. Litigated cases were simpler in their na ture. As population and wealth increased, and cities developed, the legal problems_became more intricate and more important questions were involved. The tendency was to establish numerous distinct, unrelated courts. As judicial power developed to meet expanding human needs, portions of it were from time to time parceled out to newly created tribunals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.