Arkansas Code Annotated
Ark. Code Ann. § 16-96-501 (2026)
[Superseded.]
✓ current as of May 2026
Publisher's Notes. See now Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 36(a). This section was derived from Acts 1945, No. 197, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 44-502.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1988–2006 · leading case: Murdock v. Slater, 935 S.W.2d 540 (Ark. 1996).
Murdock v. Slater, 935 S.W.2d 540 (Ark. 1996). “Hereafter all persons convicted in any municipal, justice of the peace or mayor’s court upon any plea of guilty in any misdemeanor case may appeal to the circuit court from such judgment of conviction by following the same procedure prescribed by law for appeals in other…”
Allred v. State, 837 S.W.2d 469 (Ark. 1992). “Allred now argues that the Court erred by not hearing the belated Municipal Court appeal and erred in not granting a hearing on his motion for a new trial because our rules of criminal procedure require that the Court grant a hearing if one is requested.”
Riley v. City of Corning, 743 S.W.2d 820 (Ark. 1988). “Thus, it is contended that a conviction upon such a plea is appealable pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. § 16-96-501 (1987) as would be a conviction following a guilty plea.”
In re Adoption of Rule 36 of the Arkansas Rules of Crim. Procedure, 366 Ark. 619 (Ark. 2006). “Subsection (a) incorporates Ark. Code Ann. § 16-96-501 (shown as superseded) and Arkansas Code Ann.”
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