{ "id": 1505606, "name": "Rogers v. State", "name_abbreviation": "Rogers v. State", "decision_date": "1904-07-02", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "565", "last_page": "569", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "72 Ark. 565" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "103 Fed. 376", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "F.", "case_ids": [ 3875405 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/f/103/0376-01" ] }, { "cite": "34 N. W. 254", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.W.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "81 N. W. 510", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.W.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "59 Neb. 563", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Neb.", "case_ids": [ 5323972 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/neb/59/0563-01" ] }, { "cite": "50 Miss. 68", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Miss.", "case_ids": [ 1673585 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "81" } ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/miss/50/0068-01" ] }, { "cite": "42 Md. 203", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Md.", "case_ids": [ 1846933 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/md/42/0203-01" ] }, { "cite": "17 Am. Rep. 28", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "Am. Rep.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "48 Ala. 115", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ala.", "case_ids": [ 5499737 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ala/48/0115-01" ] }, { "cite": "43 Ala. 721", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ala.", "case_ids": [ 3068942 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ala/43/0721-01" ] }, { "cite": "49 Ark. 325", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1310178 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "333" } ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/49/0325-01" ] }, { "cite": "41 Ark. 474", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "33 Ark. 17", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 8721408 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/33/0017-01" ] }, { "cite": "41 Ark. 475", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "32 Ark. 496", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1877174 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "515" } ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/32/0496-01" ] }, { "cite": "27 Ark. 266", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1885790 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "280" } ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/27/0266-01" ] }, { "cite": "19 Ark. 250", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 8726023 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/19/0250-01" ] }, { "cite": "6 Wall. 499", "category": "reporters:scotus_early", "reporter": "Wall.", "case_ids": [ 3454207 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/us/73/0499-01" ] }, { "cite": "61 Neb. 679", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Neb.", "case_ids": [ 5320098 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/neb/61/0679-01" ] }, { "cite": "2 Minn. 330", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Minn.", "case_ids": [ 732071 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/minn/2/0330-01" ] }, { "cite": "40 Ark. 200", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1897144 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/ark/40/0200-01" ] }, { "cite": "19 Ill. 327", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "41 Ark. 471", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1896226 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "474" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/41/0471-01" ] }, { "cite": "20 Vt. 656", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Vt.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "6 Wall. 511", "category": "reporters:scotus_early", "reporter": "Wall.", "case_ids": [ 3455105 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/73/0511-01" ] }, { "cite": "94 U. S. 260", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 5646548 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "268" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/94/0260-01" ] }, { "cite": "42 Md. 203", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Md.", "case_ids": [ 1846933 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/md/42/0203-01" ] }, { "cite": "40 Ark. 200", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1897144 ], "pin_cites": [ { "page": "212" } ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/40/0200-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 469, "char_count": 8386, "ocr_confidence": 0.7, "pagerank": { "raw": 2.3530095985641363e-07, "percentile": 0.7934292694284493 }, "sha256": "e6827fbf570095e5138e6e2ea0ac9c270ed1d0826bb96a2e12baa0462f781274", "simhash": "1:59d674588527cb6c", "word_count": 1516 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T14:55:00.960408+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Rogers v. State." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Battle, J.\nWas the act entitled \u201cAn act to suppress and punish gambling,\u201d approved March 27, 1901, constitutionally enacted ?\nThe constitution of this state provides that \u201cno law shall be passed except by bill;\u201d \u201cand no bill shall become a law unless, on its final passage, the vote be taken by yeas and nays; the names of the persons voting for and against the same be entered on the journal; and a majority of each house be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.\u201d Const. 1874, art. 5, \u00a7 \u00a7 21, 22. No law can be enacted unless both houses pass the same bill.\nThe journal of the senate of the general assembly of the state, which convened on the 14th of January, 1904, shows that' \u201cSenator Wilson, T. N., introduced senate bill No. 15, entitled \u2018A bill for an act to be entitled an act to suppress and punish gambling;\u2019 \u201d and that it was amended and passed the senate by the requisite majority.\nThe journals of the house of representatives of the same general assembly show that \u201csenate bill No. 15, by Wilson, T. N., a bill for an act to suppress and punish gambling,\u201d was transmitted to the house, was read the requisite number of times, and was passed by the necessary majority. The names of the persons voting for and against it in each house were entered on the respective journals, as required by the constitution.\nDid the same bill pass each house? The journals do not show the contents of the bill, and give only its title.\nIn Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins, 94 U. S. 260, 268, Mr. Justice Bradley, speaking for the court, said: \u201cThe question as to the existence of a law is a judicial one. * * * This subject was fully discussed in Gardner v. The Collector. After examining the authorities, the court in that case lays down this general conclusion, 'that whenever a question arises in a court of law of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute took effect, or of the precise terms of a statute, the judges who are called upon to decide it have a right to resort to any source of information which in its nature is capable of conveying to the judicial mind a clear and satisfactory answer to such question, always seeking first for that which in its nature is most appropriate, unless the positive law -has enacted a different rule.\u2019 [6 Wall. 511.] * * * The question of such existence or nonexistence being a judicial one in its nature, the mode of ascertaining and using the evidence must vest in the sound discretion of the court on which the duty in any particular case is imposed.\u201d\nIn Chicot County v. Davies, 40 Ark. 200, 212, this court said: \u201cThe enrollment is a solemn record, and the existence of the act is to be tried by the record, and is not to depend on the uncertainty of parol proof, or upon anything extrinsic to the law and the authenticated recorded proceedings in passing it. But the enrolled act is not the only record in the case. The inquiry may be carried back to the legislative journals and the records and files of the office of the secretary of state. In the Matter of Wellman, 20 Vt. 656.\u201d\nSection 3171 of Sandels & Hill\u2019s Digest provides as follows: \u201cThe secretary of state shall receive from the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives all the records, books, papers and rolls of the general assembly, and file the same as records of his office.\u201d These records, books, papers and rolls are kept and preserved as evidence of those facts of which they testify. What other useful purpose can they serve?\nExamining these records, we find that the act entitled \u201cAn act to suppress and punish gambling,\u201d approved March 27, 1901, was senate bill No. 15, except that section 4 of the bill as it passed the senate was as follows:\n\u201cIf any prosecuting attorney, city attorney, police judge, policeman, sheriff, marshal or mayor of any city or town in this state shall accept any sum from any person, firm or corporation with the understanding, direct or implied, that said person, firm or corporation will not be arrested or prosecuted for the violation of this act, said prosecuting attorney, city attorney, police judge, policeman, sheriff, marshal or mayor, upon indictment and conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, one-half of said fine to go to the person, firm or corporation from whom said sum was received and one-half to the common school fund.\u201d\nAnd section 4 of the bill as it passed the house is as follows:\n\u201cIf any prosecuting attorney, city attorney, police judge, policeman, marshal or mayor of any city or town in this state shall accept any sum from any person, firm or corporation with the understanding, direct or implied, that said person, firm or corporation will not be arrested and prosecuted for the violation of this act, said prosecuting attorney, city attorney, police judge, policeman, marshal or mayor, upon indictment and conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000, one-half of said fine to go to the person, firm or corporation from whom said sum was received and one-half to the common school fund.\u201d\nThe word \u201csheriff\u201d is used in section 4 of one bill, and not in the same section of the other, and the fine in section 4 in one is fixed \u201cin any sum not less than $500 nor more than $5,000,\u201d and in the same section in the other \u201cin any sum not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000.\u201d So the bill as it passed the senate and as it passed the house was not the same, but was materially different, and is void. Smithee v. Campbell, 41 Ark. 471, 474; Prescott v. Board of Trustees I. & M. Canal, 19 Ill. 327; Legg v. Mayor of Annapolis, 42 Md. 203.\nThe act, as it appears in the published acts of the general assembly, was never passed according to the constitution, and therefore has never become a law.\nReverse the. judgment, and quash the indictment.", "type": "majority", "author": "Battle, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "C. V.. Teague, Thomas B. & Robert Martin, and Campbell & Stevenson, for appellant." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Rogers v. State.\nOpinion delivered July 2, 1904.\n1. Constitutional law \u2014 passage ob bills. \u2014 Under Const. 1874, art. 5, \u00a7 \u00a7 21, 22, providing that \u201cno law shall be passed except by bill,\u201d and that \u201cno bill shall become a law unless on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas and nays\u201d etc., no law can be enacted unless both houses pass the same bill. (Page 566.)\n2. Evidence \u2014 records of legislature. \u2014 Under -Sand. & H. Dig., \u00a7 3171, providing that \u201cthe secretary of state shall receive from the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house of representatives all the records, books, papers and rolls of the general assembly, and file the same as records of his office,\u201d such records are evidence of the facts of which they testify. (Page 568.)\n3. Statute \u2014 variance between house and senate biees. \u2014 The act of March 27, 1901, entitled \u201cAn act to suppress and punish gambling,\u201d was not constitutionally enacted; it appearing from the records in the office of the secretary of state that the bill which passed the senate differed materially from that which passed the house. (Page 568.)\nAppeal from Garland Circuit Court.\nAlexander M. DueEie, Judge.\nReversed.\nC. V.. Teague, Thomas B. & Robert Martin, and Campbell & Stevenson, for appellant.\nThe bill was not legally passed in the senate, because it was not read at length three times as required by the constitution. Const, art. 5; 40 Ark. 200; 54 Cal. in; 2 Minn. 330. The act is void because the same bill was not passed by the house and senate and approved by the governor. Const. 1874, art. 5, \u00a7 12. Extrinsic evidence which does not contradict the journal may be received to aid or explain it. 26 Am. & Eng. Enc. Raw (2d Ed.), 553, 554; 36 Eed. 174; 61 Neb. 679; 6 Wall. 499. The document found by the janitor after adjournment of the senate was an official one. Sand. & H. Dig. \u00a7 \u00a7 3171, 2880. An enrolled bill is not conclusive evidence. Courts may look behind it. 24 Am. & Eng. Enc. Raw (2d Ed.), 555; 19 Ark. 250; 27 Ark. 266, 280; 32 Ark. 496, 515; 41 Ark. 475; 33 Ark. 17. Eor a statute to be legally passed, the house, the senate and the governor must have had before them the same bill for consideration and approval. 41 Ark. 474; art. 6, \u00a7 15, Const. The only question was one of identity. 49 Ark. 325, 333; 43 Ala. 721; 48 Ala. 115; 17 Am. Rep. 28; 19 111. 327; 42 Md. 203; 50 Miss. 68, 81; no Eed. 799; 59 Neb. 563; 81 N. W. 510; 34 N. W. 254; 103 Fed. 376. The house had no authority to act upon the substituted copy. Cush. Raw & Prac. Reg. Assemblies, 2396." }, "file_name": "0565-01", "first_page_order": 583, "last_page_order": 587 }