Berry v. Hall

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

This case is an eleventh hour attempt — by original action in this Court — to prevent proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 51 being submitted to the voters at the November 1960 General Election.

The General Assembly of Arkansas at its 1959 session adopted Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, which may be found on pages 1973 et seq. of the Acts of Arkansas for the year 1959. The entire Joint Resolution need not be copied, but we set out enough of it to identify what we will later discuss:

“SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 4.

“Re It Resolved by the Senate of the State of…