Finley v. State

The appellant filed a motion for a rule on the clerk because the clerk, quite properly, refused to accept the record.

An order extending the time for lodging the transcript was signed by the trial court on the 8th of August, 1983, but it was not entered, that is, filed with the clerk for entry upon the records, until the 10th of August, a day after the transcript was due to be filed.

Counsel mailed the extension order to the judge and the order was mailed by the judge to counsel in Little Rock, rather than to the circuit clerk in Danville as counsel claims it should have been. No doubt if it…