In regard to criminal courts among the Romans during the republic, the only body which had absolute power of life and death was the comitia centuriata.

Have we removed them, or have we rather ratified a law which was passed in the comitia centunata?

[Footnote: The comitia curiata, or assemblies of the curiae, alone had the power of conferring military command; no magistrate, therefore, could assume the command without the previous order of their assembly.