Case Name: Anthony Lamar ABERNATHY v. STATE of Arkansas
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1996-02-26
Citations: 323 Ark. 563
Docket Number: CR 95-966
Parties: Anthony Lamar ABERNATHY v. STATE of Arkansas
Judges: 
Reporter: Arkansas Reports
Volume: 323
Pages: 563–564

Head Matter:
Anthony Lamar ABERNATHY v. STATE of Arkansas
CR 95-966
914 S.W.2d 763
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Opinion delivered February 26, 1996
Anthony Lamar Abernathy, no response.
Winston Bryant, Att’y Gen., by: Sandy Moll, Asst. Att’y Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The state moves to complete the record on appeal, requesting the opening statement and closing argument be included. The state has had numerous extensions to file its brief — one on December 4, 1995, one on December 11, 1995, and another on January 10, 1996. To grant the state's present motion will require another extension.
The state offers no explanation for its delay in requesting the record be made complete, and we discern none, since appellant's notice of appeal filed on March 20, 1995 clearly excluded opening statements and closing arguments. The necessity for additional record should have been evident either before or at the time appellant filed his brief on October 30, 1995.
Because appellant is said to voice no objection to the state's motion, we grant it. We also stay brief time until thirty days after the record is completed, but we admonish the state that no further extensions will be approved.