State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Karston

The operation and effect of the majority opinion will not be confined to Garland county, but applies, of course, to the whole state, and its practical effect is to impose upon chancery courts a supervisory jurisdiction over the law courts in the matter of enforcing the criminal laws of the state. In my opinion this jurisdiction was not conferred upon chancery courts by the Constitution of the state. .

The observation of Chief Justice Hill in the case of State v. Vaughan, 81 Ark. 117, 98 S. W. 685, 7 L. R. A., N. S. 899, 118 Am. St. Rep. 29, 11 Ann. Cas. 277, strongly relied upon by the…