FAUBUS v. MILES

No. 5-3319.

377 S.W.2d 601 (1964)

Orval E. FAUBUS, Ex Officio Chairman of State Board of Election Commissioners, et al., Appellants, v. Maxine MILES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen., by Jack L. Lessenberry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellants.

C. B. Nance, Jr., West Memphis, for appellee.


WARD, Justice.

The subject of this litigation is the constitutionality of Act 19 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Sixty-Fourth General Assembly. Said Act 19 purports to accomplish two major objectives: one is to establish a system of voter registration and the other is to abolish the poll tax as a prerequisite to vote in any election.

Shortly after Act 19 was passed (with an emergency clause) and signed by the governor, a citizen and taxpayer (representing...

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