State v. Whitlock
Supreme Court of Arkansas
ERROR to GlarTc Circuit Court. Hon. H. B. Stuart, Circuit Judge. The information follows as near as may be the form of the English information as given by 1 Bishop on Or. Procedure, sec. 609, (Ed. of 1866), and is the proper proceeding for the removal of officers. '/Sec. 27, Art. 7, Const. 1874. STATEMENT.
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ERROR to GlarTc Circuit Court. Hon. H. B. Stuart, Circuit Judge. The information follows as near as may be the form of the English information as given by 1 Bishop on Or. Procedure, sec. 609, (Ed. of 1866), and is the proper proceeding for the removal of officers. '/Sec. 27, Art. 7, Const. 1874. STATEMENT. English, C. J. On the twenty-second of December, 1882, the prosecuting attorney of the eighth judicial circuit filed in the office of the clerk or the circuit court of Clark county, an information against William H. Whitlock, praying his removal from the office of justice of the peace, for…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
criminal Practice: Removal 5$¿“íorn1' 1. Though information is a common law mode of crim_ inal accusation, and though the common law has always been in force in this State, with some limitations, yet this mode of accusation was never in use in this State prior to the adoption of the present constitution, because the former constitutions, and statutes passed under them, required criminal prosecutions in the circuit court to be by presentment or indictment.
Section 8 of the present Declaration of Rights provides that; “No person shall be held to answer a criminal charge unless on the…
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