Stage Courts
Constructed in the style of covered amphitheaters, each of the dozens of courts features seating for hundreds yet even so they’ve been known to overflow during particularly captivating trials. When in session, each of these courts have a sitting judge who listens to arguments of accuser and accused before passing judgement (for particularly prominent and important cases, a counsel of five or even thirteen judges is assembled). Such courts process scores of cases a day with judgment decided and punishment (usually some form of amputation, mutilation, flogging, branding, or even execution) immediately dispatched in front of the excited crowd. Watching trials is a popular pas-time of Salt in Wound residents from all walks of life with most judges relishing their secondary role as entertainers.