Court Opinion

ID: 9858261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:19:20.316493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:53:41.726533
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Carleton Harris, Chief Justice, dissenting. Under the authority of McClendon v. Wood, 125 Ark. 155, 188 S. W. 6, I respectfully dissent to the ruling of the majority. In that case, the mayor of Hot Springs was under indictment returned by the Garland County Grand Jury for non-feasance in office, and the mayor sought a writ of prohibition from this Court, alleging that the Circuit Judge was about to proceed to a trial of the case without a jury, under the Constitution, he was entitled to a trial by jury, and the court would be acting beyond its power in attempting to try the case without giving him the benefit of a jury trial. This Court, in denying the writ, said: “ ‘The office of the writ of prohibition,’ said this court in the case of Russell v. Jacoway, 33 Ark. 191, ‘is to restrain an inferior tribunal from proceeding in a matter not within its jurisdiction; but it is never granted, unless the inferior tribunal has clearly exceeded its authority, and the party applying for it has no other protection against the wrong that shall be done by such usurpation.1’” The remedy by appeal is certainly adequate in this case.   Emphasis supplied.