Territorial jurisdiction of certain courts generally
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Davis v. Reed (1994)
Most recently applied in MARK WILLIAMS v. STATE OF ARKANSAS (May 2020)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) The jurisdiction of the Senate and Supreme Court embraces the whole state.
(2) The local jurisdiction of circuit courts shall be of offenses committed within the respective counties in which they are held.
(3) The local jurisdiction of district courts shall be of offenses committed within the limits of the jurisdiction of the courts, as prescribed by the statutes creating or regulating them.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.