Legal Opinion
Pulaski County ex rel. Mears v. Adkisson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided January 9, 1978No. 77-194PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Darrell Hickman, Justice.
The county Judge of Pulaski County filed with us a petition for a writ of prohibition asking that we prohibit two Pulaski County circuit judges from enforcing an order they signed in 1977 funding the Public Defender’s Program of Pulaski County.
We granted a temporary writ of prohibition on July 11, 1977. On review we make it permanent.
The Public Defender’s office of the Sixth Judicial District [Pulaski and Perry Counties] presently exists and operates by Act 279 of 1975. Section 3 of that Act reads:
The circuit court may create a Public Defender System for indigent…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Webb v. Honorable Todd HarrisonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1977
3Cited by21 opinions
- Mears v. HallSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1978
- Earl v. Tulsa County District CourtSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1980
- State v. RuizSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
- Beaumont v. AdkissonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
- Thorne v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1980
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