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Cite as 2009 Ark. 248 (unpublished) ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT No. CR 08-1130 Opinion Delivered April 30, 2009 JESSIE HILL Appellant APPELLEE STATES MOTION TO DISMISS APPEAL [CIRCUIT COURT OF OUACHITA COUNTY, CR 95-v. 156, HON. CAROL C. ANTHONY, JUDGE] STATE OF ARKANSAS Appellee MOTION GRANTED; APPEAL DISMISSED. PER CURIAM In 1995, appellant Jessie Hill, who is also known as Jessie Earl Hill, was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in Ouachita County. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to 720 months imprisonment to run consecutively to the sentence of life imprisonment without parole that he received in a Grant County capital-murder case. No appeal of the judgment was taken as appellants pro se motion to file a belated appeal was denied. Hill v. State, CR 96-710 (Ark. Nov. 4, 1996) (unpublished per curiam). In 2008, appellant sought various forms of postconviction relief in the trial court. The trial court denied and dismissed appellants pleading without a hearing in an order entered on September 2, 2008. Appellant has lodged a pro se appeal here from the order. Appellant was advised that his brief-in-chief was due here November 10, 2008. He has not filed a brief nor has he sought leave to file a belated brief. The appellee State now asks that the appeal be dismissed for appellants failure to pursue the appeal. In appellants response to the States motion,
Cite as 2009 Ark. 248 (unpublished) appellant denies that he filed this appeal. The motion is granted pursuant to Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-5. Motion granted; appeal dismissed. -2-
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