Supreme Court of Arkansas
181 Ark. 428
Robinson v. Holman
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court
Opinion delivered March 24, 1930.
- ELECTIONS—POLITICAL PARTY DEFINED.—A "political party" is an unincorporated voluntary association of persons sponsoring certain ideas of government or maintaining certain political principles or beliefs in the public policies of the government, and is in no sense a governmental instrumentality.
- ELECTIONS—EXCLUDING NEGROES PROM PARTY PRIMARY.—The Democratic Party of Arkansas, being a voluntary political organization, not an agency of the State, may prescribe rules and regulations defining qualifications of membership and providing that only white persons may become members and vote in the party primaries, without violating the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Frank B. Dodge, Chancellor; affirmed.
Jno. A. Hibbler, Booker & Booker, and Scipio A. Jones, for appellant.
June P. Wooten and D.K. Hawhorne, for appellee.
[Opinion of the court by Justice EDGAR L. MCHANEY.]
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