Opinion
Opinion delivered July 5, 1983
APPEAL ERROR — MOTION FOR BELATED APPEAL — LATE TENDER OF RECORD — ADMISSION OF MISTAKE BY ATTORNEY GOOD CAUSE FOR GRANTING MOTION. — An admission by an attorney for a criminal defendant that the record was tendered late due to a mistake on his part is good cause to grant a motion for belated appeal.
Motion for Belated Appeal; motion granted.
Law Office of W. B. Putman, by: E. E. Maglothin, Jr., for appellant.
Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., by: Theodore Holder, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Following our denial of a motion for a rule on the clerk to permit the record in this case to be filed out of time. Yent v. State, 279 Ark. 268, 650 S.W.2d 577 (1983), the appellant's attorney, E. E. Maglothin, Jr., has filed a petition for a belated appeal, assuming full responsibility for the error. Pursuant to our per curiam order concerning such appeals, 265 Ark. 964 (1979), the motion for a belated appeal is granted. A copy of this opinion will be forwarded to the Committee on Professional Conduct.