Court Opinion

ID: 9682530
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:12:51.318184+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:39.990041
License: Public Domain

John I. Purtle, Justice, concurring. To follow the reasoning of the two dissents in this case would soon lead to the abandonment of our laws and our Constitution. We are still a nation of laws but if we ever adopt the dissenting viewpoints we will no longer be. For almost two hundred years the Constitution of the United States has endured just such attacks as presented in the dissenting opinions. The Constitution of Arkansas has endured well over a hundred years of unsound and unwise attacks. I shall endeavor to defend our laws and constitutions so long as I occupy the bench on the Arkansas Supreme Court and shall continue thereafter as a private citizen.