
    Darren WOODRUFF v. STATE of Arkansas
    CR 96-90
    916 S.W.2d 104
    Supreme Court of Arkansas
    Opinion delivered February 12, 1996
    
      Maxie G. Kizer, for appellant.
    No response.
   Per Curiam.

Appellant, Darren Woodruff, by his attorney, Maxie G. Kizer, has filed a motion for rule on the clerk. The Clerk refused to docket the record concerning Mr. Wood-ruff s conviction because it revealed that the notice of appeal was late. We treat the motion for rule on the clerk as a motion for belated appeal in this circumstance.

Failure of counsel to perfect an appeal for a defendant who wishes to appeal constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, and good cause for granting a belated appeal pursuant to Ark. R. Crim. P. 36.9(e).

A copy of this opinion will be sent to the Committee on Professional Conduct.  