Fletcher v. Ray

This is a case in which the majority is adopting the “letter of the law,” instead of the “spirit of the law”; and the result is, that the voters will be deprived of deciding which of the two candidates — Fletcher or Gunter — should represent the people of White, Woodruff, Lonoke and Prairie Counties in the Arkansas State Senate. I think the result reached by the Chancery Court is in accordance with the spirit of the law; and that the decree should be affirmed. Here are my reasons for such a conclusion:

Gunter gave a check for the filing fee for Senatorial Position No. 2 in the Democratic…