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      {
        "text": "Steele Hays, Justice.\nAppellant was tried on May 11, 1980 on charges of rape, aggravated robbery and attempted capital murder. The jury convicted him of rape and acquitted him of aggravated robbery. It was unable to reach a verdict on attempted capital murder and that charge was nol-prossed.\nAlmost one year later, on May 5, 1981, appellant filed a pro se motion for a transcript of the trial in order that he might perfect an appeal. The public defender was appointed and moved orally that the petition be treated as a petition for post conviction relief under A.R.Cr.P. Rule 37. However, there seems to have been a misunderstanding as to whether it became a motion under Rule 36 for a belated appeal, or a Rule 37 petition based on allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel during the trial. As a consequence, the record presents a confusion of substantive and procedural issues.\nAppellant\u2019s proof was directed at both points, but we can disregard the Rule 37 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel at trial, as the evidence was wholly lacking. The trial court denied the Rule 37 petition and no argument on that score is now raised. However, appellant also claimed he told his trial attorney that he wanted to appeal and wrote him several times to that effect. Testimony by appellant\u2019s attorney and appellant\u2019s wife, who acted as a go-between, suggested that appellant was undecided as to whether to appeal, not wanting to risk a second trial on two charges carrying life sentences in view of the single twenty-five year sentence he received.\nOn the issue of whether appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in perfecting an appeal, the trial judge noted that he had no authority to grant a belated appeal and declined to reach that issue. It is from that ruling that appellant appeals.\nThe trial judge\u2019s comment that the trial courts are without authority to grant belated appeals is entirely consistent with what we have said in several opinions \u2014 that motions for belated appeal should be filed in the Supreme Court. Ellis v. State, 276 Ark. 560, 637 S.W.2d 588 (1982); Hamman v. State, 270 Ark. 307, 605 S.W.2d 6 (1980); and Finnie v. State, 265 Ark. 941, 582 S.W.2d 19 (1979). However, there is some confusion as to whether this court or the trial court is the proper tribunal. Appellant cites Osbourne v. State, 276 Ark. 479, 637 S.W.2d 535 (1982) and the wording of Rule 36.9 in support of his contention that the trial court is the proper place to file his motion for belated appeal. In Osbourne v. State we affirmed an order of the trial court granting a motion for a belated appeal which was filed initially in the trial court. The procedural issue was not discussed in Osbourne, we simply affirmed the trial court\u2019s order without commenting on whether the motion was improperly filed.\nAppellant also cites Rule 36.9, as amended December 18, 1978, as applying concurrent jurisdiction:\nHowever, no motion for belated appeal shall be entertained by the Supreme Court unless application has been made, either to the Supreme Court or the trial court, within eighteen months of the date of commitment. (our italics)\nBut the purpose of the amendment was not to change the procedure so as to permit motions for belated appeal to be filed in either court, but merely to set a time limit for the filing of such motions, irrespective of where they originated.\nIn spite of the inference created in Osbourne v. State, the fact remains that under our law motions for belated appeal are filed, not in the trial court under Rule 37, but in this court under Rule 36.9, which reads in part:\nThe Supreme Court may act upon and decide a case in which the notice of appeal was not given or the transcript of the trial record was not filed in the time prescribed, when a good reason for the omission is shown by affidavit, (our italics)\nWe have said as much in two opinions since Osbourne and we adhere to that view. Ellis v. State, supra, and Hammon v. State, supra.\nSince the trial court was clearly correct in its conclusion that only the Supreme Court has authority to grant a belated appeal, we must affirm its decision. The affirmance is without prejudice, however, to appellant\u2019s filing a motion for belated appeal in this Court, in which case we will likely remand to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on the disputed issues of fact. See Schuster v. State, 261 Ark. 730, 551 S.W.2d 210 (1977).\nAffirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "William R. Simpson, Jr., Public Defender, and Howard W. Koopman, Deputy Public Defender, by: Carolyn P. Baker, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant.",
      "Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: A lice Ann Burns, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "James GRAY v. STATE of Arkansas\nCR 82-84\n642 S.W.2d 306\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered November 22, 1982\nWilliam R. Simpson, Jr., Public Defender, and Howard W. Koopman, Deputy Public Defender, by: Carolyn P. Baker, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant.\nSteve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: A lice Ann Burns, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee."
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