§ 16-20-303 - List of causes to be tried -- Issuance of subpoenas -- Penalty for noncompliance. - Arkansas Statutes

16-20-303. List of causes to be tried -- Issuance of subpoenas -- Penalty for noncompliance.

(a) (1) The several clerks of the circuit courts shall, within twenty (20) days before the commencement of each term of the court, make out a docket of all causes, both civil and criminal, in which an issue of fact is to be tried, an inquiry of damages to be made, a special verdict, agreed case, demurrer, or other matter of law, to be argued at such term.

(2) The clerk shall arrange such causes or indictments upon the docket in the same order in which the original process was issued. However, all criminal matters shall be first set down. A proper portion of the causes shall be set for each day the term is supposed to continue.

(b) Every clerk, within the time specified in subdivision (a)(1) of this section, shall post in some convenient place in his office a list of all causes specified in subdivision (a)(1) of this section, distinguishing therein the day on which each cause is to be tried. He shall keep such list so affixed until the end of such term, for the inspection of the parties litigant, and their attorneys.

(c) Every clerk of the circuit court, upon the demand of any party or his attorney and upon the payment of the legal fee therefor, shall issue subpoenas for witnesses to appear and testify on the day for which the cause is set in which the subpoenas are demanded.

(d) Every clerk who neglects or refuses to make out the docket or to set and keep up such lists of causes, or to issue subpoenas according to the provisions of this section, shall, on motion, be fined by the court in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100).