Wells v. Heath

Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Pulaski County Chancery Court finding that there was a specific appropriation to pay for equipment purchased by the Department of Correction pursuant to Act 368 of 1975. We remanded for a determination of this issue in Wells v. Heath, 269 Ark. 473, 602 S.W. 2d 665 (1980).

The sole issue on appeal is whether the appropriation to pay for the purchased equipment was sufficiently specific as required by the Arkansas Constitution.

Art. 5, § 29 provides:

No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of specific…