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Cite as 2023 Ark. App. 209
                    ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
                                        DIVISION III
                                        No. CR-22-460

                                                 Opinion Delivered April   12, 2023
 BRYAN SMITH
                                APPELLANT
                                                 APPEAL FROM THE CRAWFORD
 V.                                              COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
                                                 [NO. 17CR-19-980]
 STATE OF ARKANSAS
                                  APPELLEE
                                                 HONORABLE MICHAEL MEDLOCK,
                                                 JUDGE

                                                 REMANDED TO SETTLE AND
                                                 SUPPLEMENT THE RECORD

                                 RITA W. GRUBER, Judge

       A Crawford County jury convicted appellant Bryan Smith of attempted first-degree

battery of a law enforcement officer and fleeing and sentenced him as a habitual offender to

concurrent sentences of 480 months’ and 180 months’ imprisonment. On appeal, appellant

challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the attempted-first-degree-battery

conviction. In addition, he challenges three evidentiary rulings, arguing that the circuit court

abused its discretion by allowing (1) the State to introduce proof of appellant’s failure to

appear as evidence of consciousness of guilt; (2) Trooper Roy Moomey to testify as to whether

Trooper John Bass was justified in his actions; and (3) Trooper Roy Moomey to testify as to

his opinion on appellant’s guilt. We remand to settle and supplement the record.
       At the conclusion of appellant’s trial, the court read from the verdict forms handed

by the jury foreperson to the bailiff in both the guilt and sentencing phases. Arkansas

Supreme Court Rule 3-4(c)(2) (2022) states that when there is a jury trial, the verdict forms

shall be inserted in the record. Those forms, however, are not included in the record of the

proceedings. This court has stated that if anything material to either party is omitted from

the record by error or accident, we may direct that the omission be corrected and that a

supplemental record be certified and transmitted. Perez v. State, 2015 Ark. App. 561, at 1–2;

Ark. R. App. P.–Civ. 6(e) (as made applicable to criminal cases by Ark. R. App. P.–Crim.

4(a)); see also Lacy v. State, 2017 Ark. App. 509. Accordingly, we remand to the circuit court

to settle and supplement the record with the jury-verdict forms. Appellant has thirty days

from the date of this opinion to file a supplemental record with this court.

       Remanded to settle and supplement the record.

       VIRDEN and BROWN, JJ., agree.

       Erin W. Lewis, for appellant.

       Leslie Rutledge, Att’y Gen., by: Brooke Jackson Gasaway, Ass’t Att’y Gen., for appellee.

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