What qualifications are required to be a judge in inferior courts?

We take notice of the constitutions and statutes of our sister states in respect to judicial qualifications, reference to which is tabulated in the brief of amici curiae, on behalf of appellant. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire, no legal qualifications are stated for any judicial office. The inferior courts, variously named as justice courts, magistrates, mayor's courts, police courts, and city courts, are found in all states. Non-lawyer judges are permitted in such courts in all but fifteen states, though in some states there are classes of such courts in which the justice must be a lawyer.

In Tumey v. State of Ohio, supra, 273 U.S. 523, 47 S.Ct. 441, the court states: