Anyone interested in judicial history will be pleased to learn of a

new book by Judge Jim Spears. Justice Divided, which pertains to the

circuit judges of Sebastian County, takes its title from the county having

two courthouses--one in Greenwood and another in Fort Smith. This is not a

dry tome on legal minutia, rather it is the briskly written story of how

lawyers and judges on the Arkansas border attempted to dispense justice.

Tom Dillard, Arkansas historian and newspaper columnist