Judge Dreg reached the west circuit before the rain stopped. No clerk posted a hearing list. The first people waiting saw the cream cowboy hat under the signs, then the leopard-print coat, then The Executioner over his shoulder.
That was the notice.
His court moves because the people who need it often cannot. He takes no fee, keeps no faction hall, and accepts no permanent record as a witness. A person must stand in front of him and answer the next question.
The same rule makes the circuit easy to recognize and hard to govern. No office can close it. No superior court can review it. The district gets one judge, one verdict, and the knowledge that the man in the loud coat will enforce what he says.
