Shoemate v. State

Appellant, Melvin Shoemate, was found guilty by . jury of rape and was sentenced to twenty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. The judgment and commitment order was filed of record on May 8, 1997. On June 3, 1997, appellant’s wife prepared and filed a notice of appeal on appellant’s behalf. However, we take judicial notice of the fact that we returned and declined to file a partial record submitted by appellant because appellant’s notice of appeal was not filed by a hcensed attorney or by appellant. Subsequently, on October 9, 1997, appellant by his attorney, James Steven Dunham,…