Court Opinion

ID: 9771379
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:40:48.991864+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:29.346695
License: Public Domain

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice (Concurring). I concur in the result reached in this case, but desire to make some comments about one sentence in the opinion. In next to the last paragraph of the majority opinion, there is this sentence: “After careful consideration we have concluded that we will re-examine our former decisions in this connection with a view to changing our announced rule when the question is properly presented to us again.” I think it is entirely proper that the Court should give a caveat to the Bench and Bar whenever we are about to re-examine our holdings on any point. But a hasty reading of the quoted sentence in the majority opinion might cause someone to think that we had definitely decided to change our former holdings. Such is not my understanding. I, for one, agree to re-examine the holdings; but I want it understood that I am not yet certain what my views will be on such re-examination. I may decide to stay with our own Arkansas cases rather than to follow the Supreme Court of the United States. For this reason, I concur.