Bailey v. Martin

WOODY BASSETT, Special Justice,

concurring.

I concur with the majority opinion and reluctantly agree that the appeal of the appellant must be dismissed on the basis of mootness. Since our decision in this case, albeit correct, seems inconsistent with the results in the companion cases handed down today, some elaboration is in order.

With no clear, or even identifiable, basis in the Arkansas Constitution or the statutory law of this state upon which to hang my hat, I could not dissent from the majority opinion |12but instead chose to concur for the sole purpose of explaining why I felt compelled…