Ark. Code Ann. Accordingly, any notice of appeal was required to be filed within seven days of that judgment. Here, that was not done. The public policy behind this election law is clear and obvious. Disputes related to elections must be resolved quickly in order that public offices may be filled and the people served.
Prolonged appeals run counter to that policy.
Under this subchapter, not only is the window of time for notices of appeal abbreviated, but it is the duty of this court to advance such matters on our appellate docket. At oral argument, counsel for Weems posited that the general time frame for appeals as set out in our Rules of Appellate Procedure-Civil is thirty days and that this rule trumps any legislative act that conflicts with it. See Ark. R. App. While our rules of procedure do supersede conflicting legislative acts, we have deferred to the General Assembly in setting time for appeals when the statutory rule is based on a fixed public policy which has been legislatively or constitutionally adopted and has as its basis something other than court administration. See Citizens for a Safer Carroll County v.