Title: Joseph Wayne Eads v. State of Arkansas
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: CACR00-984
State: Arkansas
Issuer: Arkansas Supreme Court
Date: May 8, 2001

ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION PER CURIAM May 10, 2001 JOSEPH WAYNE EADES Appellant v. STATE OF ARKANSAS Appellee CACR 00-984 PRO SE MOTION TO CERTIFY APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT [CIRCUIT COURT OF CRAWFORD COUNTY, NO. CR 99-95II] MOTION DENIED Joseph Wayne Eades was found guilty of five counts of incest and sentenced as a habitual offender to five consecutive terms of forty years' imprisonment. The appeal from the judgment has been lodged in the court of appeals. Eades now seeks by pro se motion to have the appeal certified to this court on the ground that his aggregate sentence which is in excess of thirty years places the appeal in this court's jurisdiction.1 He cites Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 1-2(a)(2) as authority. The motion is denied. Rule 1-2(a)(2) was amended in 1996 to provide that criminal appeals in which the death penalty or life imprisonment has been imposed are in this court's jurisdiction; all other criminal appeals in which a term-of-years has been imposed are in the court of appeals' jurisdiction. Motion denied. 1 For clerical purposes, the motion to certify was docketed under the number assigned to the appeal lodged in the court of appeals.