State of Arkansas v. Frederick David Owens, Jr. — Womack, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Womack dissented from dismissal of the State's appeal, concluding that the appeal presented a strictly legal question about whether Arkansas's speedy-trial rules were constitutionally permissible and therefore fell within the limited category of proper State appeals. He would have reached the merits and affirmed because the circuit court applied the rules as written and the State's constitutional challenge did not justify abrogating them. Justice Wood joined the dissent.