State v. George

Lyle Brown, Justice.

The sole question is whether a special circuit judge can be elected pursuant to Ark. Const., art. 7, § 21, for the purpose of selecting jury commissioners and impaneling a grand jury in a situation where the presiding judge is obviously disqualified. When the regular circuit judge of the Pope County Circuit Court, Hon. Russell C. Roberts, was notified that the prosecuting attorney desired the impaneling of a grand jury for the purpose of investigating certain activities of the trial judge, the latter, purporting to act under art. 7, § 21, disqualified himself and called…