Court Opinion

ID: 9680225
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:26:25.156814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:26.968612
License: Public Domain

Darrell Hickman, Justice, dissenting. I adhere to my view in Stover v. Hamilton, 270 Ark. 310, 604 S.W. 2d 934 (1980) and Mannix v. State, 273 Ark. 492, 621 S.W. 2d 222 (1981) . I am amazed that the court still fails to find inconsistent statutes unconstitutional. What the court has done in the Stover and Mannix cases and in this case has created its own remedy contrary to one which is permitted by Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-601, etseq. How are the parties to know how to proceed and how is the General Assembly to know how to deal with this problem? In my judgment a mistake was made in Stover, elevated to the form of a precedent in Mannix, which the majority cannot bring itself to deal with. I respectfully dissent as I have in the past. Adkisson, C.J., joins.