Lucas v. State

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

We have reconsidered this case in the light of Lewis v. City of New Orleans, 415 U.S. 130 (1974), as directed by mandate of the United States Supreme Court in its one sentence decision of April 15, 1974. The dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Blackmun, in which the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Rehnquist joined, sets out the facts in more detail than we did in our original opinion, Lucas v. State, 254 Ark. 584, 494 S.W. 2d 705. The facts are not germane to the issue now before us and they will not be recited again here.

The statute under which the appellants were…