Johnson v. State

Appellant Stacey Eugene Johnson was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection in a judgment entered November 24, 1997. The procedural background of this case is set out in Johnson v. State, 337 Ark. 609, 990 S.W.2d 553 (1999). Counsel for Appellant, David Lewis Clark, appeared for a hearing before this court on July 1, 1999, to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for failing to file Appellant’s brief as previously ordered by this court. Mr. Clark entered a guilty plea and stated that he had no excuse for failing to timely file the brief. As of the…