Efurd v. State

Attorney J. F. Atkinson, Jr., counsel for appellant Alisa Danieal Efurd, who was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in Sebastian County Circuit Court and was sentenced to twenty-five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction, appeared before this court on March 20, 2003, to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for failing to timely perfect the appeal.

During the hearing conducted on March 20, 2003, we accepted Mr. Atkinson’s guilty plea for failing to timely perfect his client’s appeal. Mr. Atkinson has taken responsibility for his failure to timely perfect the appeal,…