ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

DECEMBER 11, 2003

JAMES ROBERT PUGH

Appellant

v.

STATE OF ARKANSAS

Appellee

CR 03-1076

PRO SE MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE BRIEF [CIRCUIT COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, NO. CR 2000-1979, HON. WILLIAM A. STOREY, JUDGE]

MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME GRANTED

Per Curiam

James Robert Pugh was convicted of being an accomplice to capital murder and sentence to life imprisonment. We affirmed. Pugh v. State, 351 Ark. 5, 89 S.W.3d 909 (2002).

Pugh subsequently filed a timely petition for postconviction relief pursuant to Criminal Procedure Rule 37.1 in the trial court seeking to have the judgment vacated. The petition was denied, and the record on appeal from that order has been lodged here. Appellant Pugh, who is incarcerated and proceeding pro se, now seeks an extension of time to file the appellant's brief. After appellant filed the motion, he tendered the brief.

The motion for extension of time to file the appellant's brief, which is the first such motion filed by appellant in this appeal, is granted. Our clerk is directed to lodge the tendered brief as of the date of this opinion.

Motion granted.