Cook v. Municipal Court of Pine Bluff

Although not so entitled, this pro se petition is in substance a motion for a rule to direct the clerk to file a transcript without requiring the petitioner either to pay the required filing fee or to submit proof of indigency.

It is argued that the petitioner is entitled to proceed without paying a filing fee because the Arkansas Constitution provides in Article 2, § 13, that every person “ought to obtain justice freely, and without purchase.” That same interpretation of the Constitution was urged in Marshall v. Holland, 168 Ark. 449, 270 S.W. 609 (1925), where it was argued that under that…