Johnson v. State

On January 31, 1991, judgment was entered in the Circuit Court of Crittenden reflecting that Clyde Johnson had been found guilty by a jury of aggravated robbery and sentenced as a habitual offender to fifty years’ imprisonment. Johnson’s appointed attorney, Davis Loftin, filed a timely notice of appeal from the judgment on February 28, 1991. The appeal was not perfected, and Mr. Johnson now seeks by pro se motion to proceed with a belated appeal of the judgment. As the notice of appeal was timely filed, we treat the motion as a motion for rule on clerk rather than a motion for belated appeal…