Bailey, Lieutenant-Governor v. Abington

On February 10, 1941, the appellant, as Lieutenant-Governor of Arkansas, and as the presiding officer of the Senate of the Fifty-third General Assembly, announced that pursuant to the mandate of amendment No. 23 to the Constitution of the state of Arkansas, he would cause a determination by lot to be made to determine the seventeen senators who should hold for a term of four years, and the eighteen senators who should hold a term of two years. He announced that such determination would be made at two o'clock on February 13, 1941.

The appellees, seventeen in number, are all members of the…