Early v. Hobbs

| petitioner Reginald Early filed in this court a motion for belated appeal of an order that denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in the Lee County Circuit Court. As the notice of appeal was timely filed, we treat the motion as a motion for rule on clerk to lodge the appeal rather than a motion for belated appeal. Holland v. State, 358 Ark. 366, 367, 190 S.W.3d 904, 905 (2004).

As Early indicates in the motion, the record was first tendered to this court on December 30, 2014. Our clerk declined to lodge it because it did not contain Early’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. Our…