Besides jurisdiction in criminal matters, the Sanhedrins of three-and-twenty members performed certain civil functions.
They were to have, in criminal matters, the active and passive fuero but in civil suits only the passive; it was the same with servants of officials, while officials themselves had active and passive in both civil and criminal.
Servants of salaried officials were put on the same footing in criminal matters.
The reports of the great criminal trials before the comitia reveal the inherent weakness of a system of popular jurisdiction in criminal matters.
Suppose that the Governor General of the Philippine Islands was clothed with authority of life and death as a judge in criminal matters pertaining to the affairs of those islands.
Six States raised the age of consent in criminal matters, and four in marriage; one required a marriage ceremony.
It may here be mentioned, in passing, that the same would be true in criminal matters, if the king's laws were obligatory upon juries.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criminal matters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
