Villines v. Tucker

TOM GLAZE, Justice.

The Pulaski County Judge and Quorum Court and fifty-one other county officials initiated this suit against the Governor, asking the Pulaski County Chancery Court, Sixth Division, to declare unconstitutional certain statutes dealing with the funding of the administration of justice in Arkansas. As background information, the state appropriates money for salaries of trial court judges, prosecuting attorneys, and also partially pays court reporters and some court bailiffs. However, the General Assembly requires the respective counties to fund the other expenses of the trial…