Notwithstanding any rule of court to the contrary and in furtherance of the purposes of Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 27.1, all courts of this state having jurisdiction of criminal offenses, except for extraordinary circumstances, shall give precedence to the trials of criminal offenses over other matters before the court, civil or criminal, when the alleged victim is a person under the age of fourteen (14).
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers
Chapter 10 - General Provisions
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-10-101. Administrative responsibilities of the Supreme Court
§ 16-10-102. Administrative Office of the Courts — Director — Cooperation of court officers
§ 16-10-103. Training and education of court personnel
§ 16-10-105. Sittings of courts to be public
§ 16-10-106. Power to issue writs and process
§ 16-10-107. Process and proceedings to be in English language
§ 16-10-109. Reading of record — Signing
§ 16-10-112. Proceedings not affected by lapse of term
§ 16-10-113. Change of term not to affect proceedings
§ 16-10-114. Courts not to open on Sunday — Exceptions
§ 16-10-115. Trial by temporary judge
§ 16-10-117. Judge temporarily assigned in district — Jury list
§ 16-10-118. Judicial officeholder as candidate for nonjudicial office — Resignation — Warrants void
§ 16-10-119. Travel expenses of judges
§ 16-10-122. Sheriffs of courts
§ 16-10-123. Furnishing fuel, blank books, and stationery
§ 16-10-124. Enforcement of return of writ or process and payment of moneys
§ 16-10-125. Audit of accounts of sheriff and clerk
§ 16-10-128. Transcripts — Bills of exceptions
§ 16-10-130. Precedence given to criminal trials when victim under age of fourteen
§ 16-10-131. Exemption from overtime parking penalties
§ 16-10-132. Addresses of parties
§ 16-10-135. Aids for the hearing or visually impaired
§ 16-10-136. Extrajudicial activities of justices and judges
§ 16-10-137. Administrative Office of the Courts — Annual report
§ 16-10-139. Specialty court program evaluation and approval — Definition
§ 16-10-140. Accumulation of data concerning sexual offenses — Definitions
§ 16-10-141. District court costs and fees — Specialty courts