Case Name: Richard Wayne SNELL v. STATE of Arkansas
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1986-10-20
Citations: 290 Ark. 184
Docket Number: CR 85-206
Parties: Richard Wayne SNELL v. STATE of Arkansas
Judges: 
Reporter: Arkansas Reports
Volume: 290
Pages: 184–185

Head Matter:
Richard Wayne SNELL v. STATE of Arkansas
CR 85-206
717 S.W.2d 818
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Opinion delivered October 20, 1986
Attaway & Shumaker, by: Rick C. Shumaker; and Dowd, Harrelson & Moore, by: Marshall Moore, for appellant.
Steve Clark, Att’y Gen., by: Jack Gillean, Asst. Att’y Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Appellant was convicted of the capital felony murder of William Stump and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Among his many points of error is a claim that information was withheld in violation of A.R.Cr.P. Rule 17.1(d) tending to negate the guilt of the appellant. The information was allegedly contained in a statement of John Thomas Holmer. The state denies the claim.
During the trial the state produced the Holmer statement for the trial court's inspection. When the trial judge pronounced the statement free of exculpatory information the defense asked that it be appended to the record so that it could be reviewed on appeal. That request was denied.
In view of the nature of the case, we think the proper course would have been to include the material in the record and we now order that the record on appeal be supplemented to include the statement of John Thomas Holmer. See Rule 6(e), Arkansas Rules of Appellate Procedure. The parties may petition this Court for permission to file a supplemental brief.