(c) That's right. 

You were asked to select the incorrect statement.

It is incorrect to say that a state supreme court with a single judge sitting can hear appeals from lower ranking courts.  When sitting as a court of appeal, a state supreme court is presided over by either three or five judges.

It is correct to say that the power of a court to hear and decide cases is referred to as its ‘jurisdiction’. 

It is also correct to say that an ‘original hearing’ refers to the first hearing of a case by the courts.

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