forlly, they were only felony trials, and that would be at the capital. people were fined for minor crimes like failure to attend .hurch, being drunk in public if it were theft, you might be whipped. for perjury, forgery, or cheating in gaming, you might spend two hours in the pillory's with your ears nailed to the if you repeated the crime, you might have your ears cut off. tradition, not written in law anywhere, the enslaved portion of the population was only allowed inside the building when the court one of them in here as a witness or defendant. here as ato have them witness or defendant. magistrate would sit in the chair in the center. you might notice he is directly underneath his majesty's coat of arms. magistrates are tributaries of the mainstream of his majesty's authority. though they have gubernatorial appointments, the king has a royal appointment, so they did meet under the king's authority. the jury sat on the lower bench beneath them. the jury would, just like a jury today, make decisions as to points of fact in the case. the judges made de