County of Pulaski v. Irvin
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was a case brought into the Pulaski Circuit Court, by certio-rari, and there determined, in March, 1840, before the Hon. Charles Caldwell, one of the circuit judges.
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This was a case brought into the Pulaski Circuit Court, by certio-rari, and there determined, in March, 1840, before the Hon. Charles Caldwell, one of the circuit judges. Miller Irvin exhibited, in the county court of the county of Pulaski, a demand for the sum of $450 04, for compensation and fees for services rendered by him, as sheriff of Phillips county, in the case of the State of Arkansas against David F. Douglass, prosecuted for murder, upon an indictment returned into the circuit court of the county of Pulaski, in which the offence was alleged to have been committed, but which was…
1Opinion of the Court
By
Dickinson, J.
This is a question w'hich, both in its principle and in its consequences, involves the construction of our constitution, in regard to the powers that belong to the State, in her sovereign capacity ; and,' also, the constitutional jurisdiction of the county courts.
The matter in controversy is not easily determined, because the questions involved in its discussion possess inherent difficulty, in them- , selves; and this is greatly increased by the vagueness and uncertainty of the terms used in the constitution.
In the construction of grants of constitutional power, there is no…
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