Title: Dallas Gene Roy v. State of Arkansas

State: arkansas

Issuer: Arkansas Supreme Court

Document:

ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT No. CR 08-249 DALLAS GENE ROY Appellant v. STATE OF ARKANSAS Appellee Opinion Delivered May 15, 2008 PRO SE MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE APPELLANT’S BRIEF [CIRCUIT COURT OF INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, CR 2004- 264, HON. JOHN DAN KEMP, JUDGE] MOTION GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART. PER CURIAM In 2005, appellant Dallas Gene Roy was found guilty of first-degree murder after a trial to the bench and sentenced to 402 months’ imprisonment. The Arkansas Court of Appeals affirmed. Roy v. State, CACR 06-652 (Ark. App. May 2, 2007). Subsequently, through counsel, appellant timely filed in the trial court a verified petition under Ark. R. Crim. P. 37.1. The trial court denied the petition and relieved trial counsel from representing appellant. Appellant has lodged a pro se appeal from the order. Now before us is appellant’s pro se motion for extension of time to file his brief-in-chief. As this is his first request for an extension of time, the motion is granted but not for the sixty days requested by appellant. The time to file the appellant’s brief is extended to thirty days from the date of this opinion. Motion granted in part and denied in part.