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  "name": "Kendall BOWERS v. STATE of Arkansas",
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      "cite": "278 Ark. 462",
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    "judges": [
      "Holt, C.J., not participating.",
      "Hickman and Purtle, JJ., concur and would affirm under Rule 9 of Rules of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "Kendall BOWERS v. STATE of Arkansas"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Tom Glaze, Justice.\nOn July 11,1984, appellant pled guilty to three counts of aggravated robbery and was sentenced to imprisonment for forty years. Two years later, he filed his petition for Rule 37 relief, claiming that his attorney misinformed him regarding the amount of time he would actually serve. He argued below, and now on appeal, that he would not have pled guilty if he had been properly informed concerning his parole eligibility. The trial court denied appellant\u2019s petition without a hearing, and we affirm.\nAs noted by the State, appellant\u2019s abstract of record consists only of a list of the pleadings with little or none of their contents described; and while he recites part of his rule 37 petition, the court\u2019s order denying it is not set out. When, as here, an appellant\u2019s abstract is deficient, our practice is to rely on the record if it shows that the trial court\u2019s decision should be affirmed on a particular point, but not to explore the record for prejudicial error if none is shown by the abstract. Smith v. State, 278 Ark. 462, 648 S.W.2d 792, cert. denied, 464 U.S. 890 (1983).\nIn reviewing the record, we are apprised that the appellant entered his guilty plea, knowing he would receive a forty-year sentence. It was after he entered his plea that he claims his counsel misinformed him that he could expect to be paroled after four or five years. Clearly, under those circumstances, appellant had not relied upon counsel\u2019s advice concerning parole eligibility when entering his plea of guilty. However, even if he had been given such information before entering his plea, we have held that erroneous advice concerning parole eligibility does not automatically render a guilty plea involuntary. Garmon v. State, 290 Ark. 371, 719 S.W.2d 699 (1986).\nBecause appellant fails to demonstrate any prejudicial error, we affirm.\nHolt, C.J., not participating.\nHickman and Purtle, JJ., concur and would affirm under Rule 9 of Rules of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.",
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        "author": "Tom Glaze, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Ross & Ross, P.A., by: Joe Ross, for appellant.",
      "Steve Clark, Att\u2019y Gen., by: Theodore Holder, Asst. Att\u2019y Gen., for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Kendall BOWERS v. STATE of Arkansas\nCR 86-216\n729 S.W.2d 170\nSupreme Court of Arkansas\nOpinion delivered May 18, 1987\nRoss & Ross, P.A., by: Joe Ross, for appellant.\nSteve Clark, Att\u2019y Gen., by: Theodore Holder, Asst. Att\u2019y Gen., for appellee."
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