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LESSENBERRY v. ADKISSON

No. 73-95.

499 S.W.2d 835 (1973)

Jack L. LESSENBERRY, Petitioner, v. Richard B. ADKISSON and James R. Howard, Judges, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 15, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon B. Catlett, Little Rock, for petitioner.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., by O. H. Hargraves, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for respondents.

Wm. R. Wilson, Jr., and Floyd J. Lofton, Little Rock, for Arkansas Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae.

E. B. Dillon, Jr., Little Rock, Chairman, Professional Ethics and Grievance Committee of the Arkansas Bar Assn., amicus curiae.

JONES, Justice.

The regularly elected judge of the Pulaski County Circuit Court, Fourth Division, ordered Jack L. Lessenberry, a practicing attorney in Little Rock, to represent Bonnie Jo Tenpenny at her jury trial on a charge of delivering a controlled substance consisting of heroin in violation of the state law. Lessenberry failed and refused to represent Mrs. Tenpenny at the trial presided over by a special judge. He...

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