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  "id": 1719886,
  "name": "Robert Lee CURRIE v. STATE of Arkansas",
  "name_abbreviation": "Currie v. State",
  "decision_date": "1980-01-30",
  "docket_number": "CA CR 79-116",
  "first_page": "1178",
  "last_page": "1180",
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      "cite": "594 S.W.2d 56"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ark. Ct. App.",
    "id": 13370,
    "name": "Arkansas Court of Appeals"
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    "id": 34,
    "name_long": "Arkansas",
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    "parties": [
      "Robert Lee CURRIE v. STATE of Arkansas"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "David Newbern, Judge.\nThe question here is whether a motion for new trial was filed in time. The appellant was convicted of second degree battery by the court sitting without a jury at a trial held April 10, 1979. On that same date, and at the time the verdict was announced, the trial judge announced a sentence of five years confinement with two years suspended. A judgment including that sentence was signed April 11, 1979. Then the appellant moved to be allowed to present matters in mitigation, and the court held a mitigation hearing on May 8, 1979. A document referring to the mitigation hearing appears in the record, and it concludes as follows: \u201cSentence imposed as previously stated at the Court Trial on April 10, 1979.\u201d\nNotice of appeal was filed May 8,1979, and a motion for new trial was filed May 25, 1979. Thus, the motion was filed within 30 days after the mitigation hearing but not within 30 days of the first pronouncement. Ark. R. Crim. P. 36.22 provides, in part:\nA person convicted . . . may file a motion for new trial. . . but [it]. . . must be filed prior to the time fixed to file a notice of appeal.\nAlthough in this case the notice of appeal has been filed, that is irrelevant, as the rule gives the appellant the \u201ctime fixed to file a notice of appeal\u201d to file his motion for new trial. The \u201ctime fixed\u201d for filing notice of appeal is 30 days \u201cfrom the date of the sentence and entry of judgment by the trial judge.\u201d Ark. R. Crim. P. 36.9.\nOn October 11, 1979, the trial judge entered an order denying the motion for new trial, and reciting that it had not been timely filed in accordance with Rule 36.22.\nThe appellee concurs in the appellant\u2019s position that the order was incorrect, as the ultimate pronouncement of sentence occurred May 8, 1979, and the time for filing notice of appeal and thus for moving for new trial commenced that date rather than the earlier one. We agree with the parties.\nThe appellant is thus entitled to a hearing on the merits of his motion for a.new trial, and the case is remanded to the trial court for that purpose.\nThe appellant has raised two other points for reversal with which we do not deal in view of the necessity of remanding for the hearing on the motion for new trial. If the trial court denies the motion for \u00e1 new trial, after a hearing, we will resume jurisdiction of this case to rule on the appellant\u2019s other two grounds for reversal. In that case, the appellant will give written notice to the appellee of the trial court\u2019s ruling, and the appellee will have 21 days from receipt of such notice to file a brief responding to the appellant\u2019s points II and III.\nAny such resumption of jurisdiction to consider those points will, of course, be without prejudice to any appeal the appellant may perfect as a result of the trial court\u2019s ruling on his motion for new trial.\nReversed and remanded.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "David Newbern, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "P. A. Hollingsworth and Janet L. Pulliam, for appellant.",
      "Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: Catherine Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Robert Lee CURRIE v. STATE of Arkansas\nCA CR 79-116\n594 S.W. 2d 56\nOpinion delivered January 30, 1980\nReleased for publication February 20, 1980\nP. A. Hollingsworth and Janet L. Pulliam, for appellant.\nSteve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: Catherine Anderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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  "file_name": "1178-01",
  "first_page_order": 1238,
  "last_page_order": 1240
}