Section 8
SEC. 8. Section one hundred and forty-five-K of the Administrative Code, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Three, is further amended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 145-K. Distribution of cases between divisions.—All of the cases of the Court of Appeals shall be allotted between the three divisions thereof for trial and decision, and the affirmative vote of the majority of the members of each division shall be necessary for the pronouncement of a judgment. Whenever in any criminal case submitted to a division, the said division, or any member thereof, should be of the opinion that the penalty of death or life imprisonment should be imposed, the said Court shall refrain from entering judgment thereon and shall forthwith certify the case to the Supreme Court for final determination, as if the case had been brought before it on appeal. "Whenever a division of the Court of Appeals fails to reach a decision in a case submitted to it, or whenever such division shall so order, or whenever the Presiding Justice, in the exercise of his sound discretion, so orders, the case shall be heard and determined by the Court sitting in banc, the affirmative vote of at least eight Justices being necessary for the pronouncement of a judgment."