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ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
DIVISION II
No. CR-16-568
Opinion Delivered: May 3, 2017
JAMES PAFFORD
APPELLANT
APPEAL FROM THE HEMPSTEAD
COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
[NO. 29CR-15-112]
V.
HONORABLE DUNCAN
STATE OF ARKANSAS
CULPEPPER, JUDGE
APPELLEE
REMANDED TO SETTLE AND
SUPPLEMENT THE RECORD;
REBRIEFING ORDERED
MIKE MURPHY, Judge
A Hempstead County jury convicted appellant James Pafford of two counts of rape
and two counts of sexual assault in the second degree. Pafford was sentenced to twenty-five
years’ imprisonment in the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) on each rape
conviction, to run consecutively to each other, and five years’ imprisonment on each sexual-
assault conviction, to run concurrently with the rape convictions, totaling fifty years in the
ADC. Pafford timely filed a motion for new trial, and the circuit court denied the motion
by order. From that order, Pafford appeals. We do not reach the merits of appellant’s
arguments due to a deficiency in the record and appellant’s addendum.
Pafford raises four points for reversal. All four issues require us to consider his motion
for new trial, which we are not able to do with the record before us. Both the record and
addendum are missing pages fourteen through eighteen of the nineteen-page motion and
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brief in support of a new trial. Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-2(a)(8) requires that an
appellant’s brief include an addendum consisting of all documents essential to this court’s
resolution of the issues on appeal. Additionally, if anything material to either party is omitted
from the record by error or accident, we may direct that the omission be corrected, and if
necessary, that a supplemental record be certified and transmitted. Ark. R. App. P.–Civ.
(6)(e).
Because of the deficiency in the record as outlined above, we remand to the circuit
court to settle and supplement the record with the necessary documents within thirty days.
Whitson v. State, 2013 Ark. App. 730, at 2. Pafford shall have fifteen days from the date the
supplemental record is lodged to file a substituted abstract, addendum, and brief. See Ark.
Sup. Ct. R. 4-2(b)(3). After service of the substituted brief, the State shall have fifteen days
to revise or supplement its responsive brief or it may rely on the brief that it has previously
filed in this appeal. The parties originally requested an oral argument in this case, and they
may request one again. Counsel is reminded to carefully review the rules to ensure that no
other deficiencies exist.
Remanded to settle and supplement the record; rebriefing ordered.
ABRAMSON and HIXSON, JJ., agree.
Benca & Benca, by: Patrick J. Benca, for appellant.
Leslie Rutledge, Att’y Gen., by: Kristen C. Green, Ass’t Att’y Gen., for appellee.
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