Opinion ID: 2419640
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Heading: sufficiency of the evidence

Text: Hood challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction for aggravated robbery. The State does not address the merits of his argument, but responds that the issue is not preserved for appellate review because Hood failed to abstract the trial court's ruling on the renewal of his directed verdict motion. We agree. At the close of the State's case, Hood's abstract shows that he made a specific directed-verdict motion on the aggravated robbery charge alleging that there was insufficient evidence of corroboration. The abstract also reflects that the trial court found that there was sufficient evidence of corroboration to give the case to the jury. Following the close of all evidence, Hood made a general renewal of all earlier motions, and the abstract demonstrates that closing arguments were then made. While Hood's abstract contains his general renewal of the earlier, specific directed-verdict motion, see Durham v. State, 320 Ark. 689, 899 S.W.2d 470 (1995) (renewed directed-verdict motion I would renew all previous motions I have made at close of evidence sufficient for appellate review), it fatally omits the trial court's ruling on this motion. This court has often emphasized that the record on appeal is limited to that which is properly abstracted. See, e.g. Moncrief v. State, 325 Ark. 173, 925 S.W.2d 776 (1996). Without the trial court's ruling, we have no basis for a decision, and are precluded from a review of this point. See Danzie v. State, 326 Ark. 34, 930 S.W.2d 310 (1996); Donald v. State, 310 Ark. 197, 833 S.W.2d 770 (1992).