When1: 1164
Who: English crown courts
What: court
Where: England
Detail: Crown courts used traveling judges {missi, judge}, and county courts decreased [1164]. Most crimes "broke the king's peace" and so justified crown courts. In crown courts, lawyers talked to judge while jurors listened. They had no witnesses. Lawyers gave no summations.
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