Lewis v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Grant Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; The act is unconstitutional and void. Art. 2, § 18, Const. 1874; Id., art. 2, § 29; 111 111. 581; 53 Am. Rep. 643; vol. 1, Green’s History of the English People, 252, 253; 152 IT.
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Appeal from Grant Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; The act is unconstitutional and void. Art. 2, § 18, Const. 1874; Id., art. 2, § 29; 111 111. 581; 53 Am. Rep. 643; vol. 1, Green’s History of the English People, 252, 253; 152 IT. S-. 133; 123 Tenn. 654, 135 S. W. 325. Error is confessed bécause the act grants privileges to citizens of Grant County greater than those conferred upon citizens of other counties of the State; and because the act is unconstitutional in that it makes a classification based entirely upon mere residence. 5 Pac. 927; 5 Conn.'391-397; 38 L. R. A. 561; 26 L. R. A. (N.…
1Opinion of the Court
"Wood, J.
This appeal involves the validity of Act 280 of the General Assembly of 1913, page 1118, approved March 29, 1913, prohibiting nonresidents from hunting and fishing in Grant, Hot Spring and Lonoke counties without a license, prescribing a penalty for the. violation of the act in a sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. The act does not require citizens of those counties to obtain license before hunting and fishing in the counties named or in other portions of the State.
Our Constitution provides that “the General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens…
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