The superior courts have original and appellate jurisdiction.  Actions may be begun in this court, and actions may be appealed to this court.  The original jurisdiction of this court extends exclusively over all suits for divorce, suits where titles to land are involved, cases in equity, and criminal cases where the person is accused of a crime the punishment for which is loss of life or imprisonment in the penitentiary.  Offenses of a lesser grade are called misdemeanors.  The court has jurisdiction over all civil cases.  The judge of the superior court has the power to issue various writs for the enforcement of the law, and grant charters to all corporations, except banking, insurance, railroad, canal, navigation, express, telephone, and telegraph companies.  Cases appealed from justice courts, county courts, courts of ordinary, and certain city courts lie to the superior courts.

The clerk of the Superior court is elected by the people for a term of two years.  He has custody of all court papers, records, liens, deeds, mortgages, and other conveyances, issues executions, subpoenas, commissions to take interrogatories, and other writs with the authority of the court.  He also has the power to administer oaths.

The sheriff of the county is properly a county officer, but his duties are closely allied with the superior court.  He is elected by the people for a term of two years.  It is his duty to execute all orders of the court, attend in person or by deputy all its sessions, keep a record of all sales and executions, publish advertisements of sales, and conduct sales at the county seat.  He levies executions, serves warrants, and executes all the writs of the judge of the superior court.  The sheriff may appoint deputies to assist him in the performance of his duties.

The solicitor-general is elected by the people for a term of four years.  He must have been three years a citizen of the State, he must be twenty-five years of age, and must have practiced law three years.  He is the solicitor of the whole circuit, and is not a county officer.  He advises the grand jury, examines witnesses before that body, and draws up all indictments and presentments.  It is his duty to prosecute or defend any civil action in his circuit in which the State is interested, collect moneys arising from fines and forfeited bonds, and all claims of the State, as ordered by the Comptroller-General.  He represents the State in all criminal actions in the superior court, of which he is the solicitor, and in the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court in cases appealed from his circuit.

The Court of Appeals consists of three judges, elected one every second year for a term of six years.  The Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and five associate justices.  They are elected two every second year for a term of six years.  A judge of the Court of Appeals or a justice of the Supreme Court must be thirty years of age, must have been a resident of the State three years, and must have practiced law seven years.