Ridgeway v. Ray

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

On January 26, 1988, appellant Gene Ridgeway filed a petition requesting that separate appellees Donald Ray and Steve Scudder be declared ineligible as candidates for their respective party primaries because they failed to file the requisite political practice pledges “in person” before the county clerk in violation of Ark. Code Ann. § 7-6-102 (1987). Ridgeway further requested a writ of prohibition prohibiting the separate appellee political parties and their officers from certifying Ray and Scudder as candidates.

The trial court determined that section 7-6-102…