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Date Created: 2023-10-25 14:06:59.282275+00
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Cite as 2023 Ark. App. 472
                     ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
                                        DIVISION IV
                                        No. CR-23-205

                                                 Opinion Delivered   October 25, 2023
 OLAJIDE RODDY
                                 APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE CRAIGHEAD
                                           COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT,
                                           WESTERN DISTRICT
 V.
                                           [NO. 16JCR-21-23]

 STATE OF ARKANSAS                               HONORABLE CHRIS THYER, JUDGE
                                   APPELLEE
                                                 AFFIRMED

                                  RITA W. GRUBER, Judge

          Olajide Roddy appeals a Craighead County Circuit Court order revoking his

probation and sentencing him to seventy-two months’ imprisonment.1 On appeal, he claims

that the circuit court erred when it denied his motion for directed verdict because there was

insufficient evidence that he was in constructive or actual possession of the contraband. We

affirm.

          On May 4, 2021, Roddy pled guilty to felony second-degree battery and was sentenced

to sixty months’ probation, subject to certain terms and conditions, which Roddy

acknowledged receipt of, as evidenced by his signature.

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        This is a companion case to two other criminal cases: No. 16JCR-18-1406 and No.
16JCR-18-882. Roddy was given a suspended imposition of sentence in both. The circuit
court held a combined revocation hearing in the three cases but issued three separate
sentencing orders. Roddy filed separate appeals, and today, we hand down opinions in all
three appeals. See Roddy v. State, 2023 Ark. App. 471; Roddy v. State, 2023 Ark. App. 466.
       Because the terms and conditions, petitions to revoke, the revocation-hearing

testimony, issues on appeal, and arguments presented here are identical to those presented

in his companion cases, which we also hand down today, we find it unnecessary to restate

them herein. See Raino v. State, 2021 Ark. App. 337. Accordingly, for the reasons set forth in

companion case No. 16JCR-18-1406, Roddy v. State, 2023 Ark. App. 471, we affirm Roddy’s

revocation.

       Affirmed.

       HARRISON, C.J., and HIXSON, J., agree.

       Terry Goodwin Jones, for appellant.

       Tim Griffin, Att’y Gen., by: David L. Eanes, Jr., Ass’t Att’y Gen., for appellee.

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