A lifelong baseball fan, Landis often slipped away from the courthouse for a White Sox or Cubs game.

" She soon relented, and gave her first stump speech for him in 1978 on the courthouse steps in Muleshoe, Texas.

He blames Clark Kent for writing several articles unraveling his schemes and pledges vengeance on Metropolis after an angry mob jeers him on the courthouse steps.

Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee.

As for the court's actual facilities, a state supreme court may be housed in the state capitol, in a nearby state office building shared with other courts or state executive branch agencies, or in a small courthouse reserved for its exclusive use.

Having seen the armed blacks, some of the more than 1, 000 whites at the courthouse went home for their own guns.

Small groups of armed black men began to venture toward the courthouse in automobiles, partly for reconnaissance, and to demonstrate they were prepared to take necessary action to protect Rowland.

* After many years of settlement, the " Town on Queen Anne's Creek " is established as a courthouse for Chowan County, North Carolina.

The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

Although some citizens believed Bowling Green was no longer the most practical or logical site for a new courthouse, the commissioners quickly decided to build the third courthouse on the site of the previous one in Bowling Green.

In 1871 brothers Robert and John Stewart donated a tract of land along the National Road in Brazil for proposed site of the new courthouse.

Residents generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, as the Confederate flag flew over the county courthouse for many years following the end of the Civil War.

The courthouse is usually located in the county seat, although large metropolitan counties may have satellite or annex offices for their courts.

In some places, the courthouse also contains the main administrative office for the county government, or when a new courthouse is constructed, the former one will often be used for other local government offices.

Either way, a typical courthouse will have one or more courtrooms and a court clerk's office with a filing window where litigants may submit documents for filing with the court.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California even has a courthouse in Yosemite to hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for Yosemite National Park.

It was originally constructed to facilitate Toronto ’ s City Council, legal and municipal offices and the city's courts however following the construction of the fourth city hall ( adjacent to the third, on Queen Street ) the building's purpose was limited to being solely a courthouse for the Ontario Court of Justice.

The film ends with Bud going up the steps of the courthouse to face justice for his crimes, albeit now with a clear conscience.

Between 1984 and 2003, the building housed a large collection of stuffed animals in complex dioramas, such as an animal courthouse or school classroom populated by baby squirrels.

Consequently, to ensure that the county seat issue would not be played out again, Davenport built the first county courthouse.

* On June 12, 2011, Talbot County, Maryland, honored Douglass by installing a seven-foot bronze statue of Douglass on the lawn of the county courthouse in Easton, Maryland.

The Chaves county courthouse

Many county seats in the United States feature a historic courthouse, such as this one in Renville County, Minnesota, pictured in May 2008.

) The county courthouse and county administration are usually located in the county seat, but some functions may also be conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large.

When Tierra Amarilla was designated as the county seat the villagers set about building a courthouse.

That same year the county seat was transferred from Tappan to New City, where a new courthouse was built.

Built of brick, at a cost of $ 11, 000, and very similar to the previous courthouse, the new Courthouse began serving the county in the Fall of 1853.

Later that year, the first post office opened in Hayesville and the first county courthouse was built in 1888, currently it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The first county election was held on March 1, 1823, with 61 voters participating to elect the first three county commissioners — William Offield, James Blevins and John McCollough — who then ordered that the first jail and courthouse be built.

State trial courts are usually located in a courthouse in the county seat.

A courthouse ( sometimes spelled court house ) is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities.

In most counties in the United States, the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse which may also house county governmental offices.

Image: Orange county court house vt. jpg | Orange County, Vermont courthouse

5, # 25 ( April 2007 ) is shot outside a federal courthouse ; taken to a hospital, he is pronounced dead.

A monument to the Confederate soldier is hidden behind the old courthouse building or.

" A large neoclassical courthouse is also very prominent and dominates the town center.

The old Tryon County courthouse, later the Montgomery County courthouse, became the Fulton County Courthouse, where it is the oldest operating courthouse in New York.

Socrates concludes the dialogue by announcing that all the two have produced is mere " wind-eggs " and that he must be getting on now to the courthouse to face his trial being brought against him by Meletus.

The courthouse is located at 53 E. Main Street.

The third and current Montgomery County courthouse was the first courthouse designed by George W. Bunting of Indianapolis ; it is one of six of his Indiana courthouses still standing.

The courthouse is part of the iconography of American life and is equivalent to the city hall as the symbol of the municipium in European free cities.

Southport Courthouse is the city's major courthouse and has jurisdiction to hear petty criminal offences and civil matters up to A $ 250, 000.