Kentucky. Circuit Court (Christian County)

Christian County was created in 1796 as Kentucky's nineteenth county and named for Colonel William Christian. Hopkinsville is its county seat. The courthouse burned in 1864.

The Circuit Court is the highest court of civil and criminal jurisdiction within Christian County, and serves as the appellate court for many cases arising from lower courts. Lower courts now include the District Court and have included the County, Justice's and Quarterly Courts. The circuit court has original jurisdiction in all justiciable causes not exclusively reserved to some other court (KRS 23A.010), and therefore has a wide variety of powers, including jurisdiction in criminal cases, adoptions, mental inquests, as well as divorce, probate, and land cases and other civil disputes.

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