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240 MUNNERLYN V. STATE [293 Cite as 293 Ark. 240 (1987) Robert Harold MUNNERLYN v. STATE of Arkansas CR 87-101 736 S.W.2d 287 Supreme Court of Arkansas Opinion delivered October 5, 1987 APPEAL & ERROR NO ABSTRACT OF CASE RECORD AND ARGUMENTS IRRELEVANT CASE REMANDED ATTORNEYS DIRECTED TO ABSTRACT AND BRIEF CASE. Where appellant's attorney filed a brief that consisted of copies of pages from a brief filed on behalf of appellant in another criminal case; part of the record and arguments were based on an omnibus hearing on a confession in which appellant confessed to three robberies, none of which were dealt with in this case; and the record in this case has not been abstracted; and where the attorney general's office filed a four page brief that was irrelevant, the case was remanded and the attorneys were
ARK.] MUNNERLYN V. STATE 241 Cite as 293 Ark. 240 (1987) directed to properly abstract and brief the case. Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Fourth Division; John Langston, Judge; remanded. Gregory E. Bryant, for appellant. Steve Clark, Att'y Gen., by: J. Blake Hendrix, Asst. Att'y Gen., for appellee. DARRELL HICKMAN, Justice. Appellant Robert Harold Munnerlyn was convicted of robbing the England Package Store, North Little Rock, Arkansas. His attorney, Greg Bryant, has filed a brief that consists of copies of pages from a brief filed on behalf of Munnerlyn in another criminal case. Munnerlyn v. State, 293 Ark. 209, 736 S.W.2d 282 (1987). In that case there was an omnibus hearing on a confession in which Munnerlyn confessed to three robberies, one on November 9, 1985, one on November 16, 1985, and one on November 24, 1985. He did not confess to the robbery in this case. So the record of the omnibus hearing is irrelevant. Yet, Munnerlyn's attorney has made the record of the omnibus hearing a part of this record and raised legal arguments entirely irrelevant to this case. The record in this case has not been abstracted. The attorney general's office, represented by J. Blake Hen-drix, must also have assumed that the arguments in Munnerlyn's other case were relevant to this appeal: the state filed a four page brief that is irrelevant. [I] The case is remanded and the attorneys are directed to properly abstract and brief this case. Briefs are due pursuant to Rule 11, Rules of the Supreme Court as though the transcript were lodged today. Remanded.
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