Blackwell v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Yell Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoayay, Circuit Judge. An act giving authority to a majority of the adult citizens of the toAvnship to enact a law, is unconstitutional. Const, of 1874, Art. Ill, sec. 1, Art. Ill, sec. 28; Cooley on Const, him., pp. 117 to 122, and 138, 210, 212. There was no proof of a valid change in the name of the “ Dardanelle Eemale Institute ” to the “ Dardanelle Institute/’ The attempted change was not in accordance with law.
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APPEAL from Yell Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoayay, Circuit Judge. An act giving authority to a majority of the adult citizens of the toAvnship to enact a law, is unconstitutional. Const, of 1874, Art. Ill, sec. 1, Art. Ill, sec. 28; Cooley on Const, him., pp. 117 to 122, and 138, 210, 212. There was no proof of a valid change in the name of the “ Dardanelle Eemale Institute ” to the “ Dardanelle Institute/’ The attempted change was not in accordance with law. Gantt’s Digest, secs. 3405, 3406. The requisites were not complied with. The charter to the former trustees had been lost, being…
1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.
On the seventh of February,, 1878, William Blackwell was indicted in the circuit court of Yell county, for the Dardanelle district, the indictment charging that: “The said William Blackwell, on the
tenth day of January, 1878, in the incorporated town of Dardanelle, in the Dardanelle district, in the county of Yell, etc., unlawfully did sell one pint of whisky, spirituous liquor, to Dock Holland, within three miles of the Dardanelle Institute, an incorporated academy, while pupils were being taught in the same, without a certificate in writing from a regular practicing physician that said…
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