Ark. Code Ann. § 16-91-111: Appeal after confinement

(a) If a judgment of confinement in the Division of Correction has been executed before the certificate of appeal was delivered to the county sheriff whose duty it was to execute the judgment, the defendant shall remain in the division during the pendency of the appeal unless discharged by the expiration of his or her term of confinement or by pardon.

(b) Upon a reversal, if a new trial is ordered, the defendant shall be removed from the division to the county jail from which he or she was brought by the county sheriff of the county.

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 877, eff. 7/1/2019.

Crim. Code, § 334; C. & M. Dig., § 3418; Pope's Dig., § 4261; A.S.A. 1947, § 43-2726; Acts 2005, No. 1994, § 284.