John Naylor v. State of Arkansas

Cite as 2025 Ark. App. 463
ARKANSAS COURT OF APPEALS
DIVISION III
No. CR-24-670

Opinion Delivered October 1, 2025
JOHN NAYLOR
APPELLANT APPEAL FROM THE CRAIGHEAD
COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT,
EASTERN DISTRICT
V.
[NO. 16LCR-23-40]

STATE OF ARKANSAS HONORABLE CHRIS THYER, JUDGE
APPELLEE
AFFIRMED

WENDY SCHOLTENS WOOD, Judge

John Naylor appeals from a Craighead County Circuit Court sentencing order

revoking his probation and sentencing him to ten years’ suspended imposition of sentence.1

On appeal, Naylor challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the revocation. We

affirm.

On November 3, 2023, Naylor pleaded guilty to sex offender failure or refusal to

provide information (a Class C felony) and received three years’ probation. The conditions

of his probation required, in part, that he “not commit a criminal offense punishable by

imprisonment” and “not use, sell, distribute, or possess any controlled substance.”

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This is a companion case to two other cases, Nos. 16LCR-23-21 and 16LCR-23-26,
in which Naylor had also been placed on probation. Naylor has filed separate appeals, and
today we hand down opinions in all three. See also Naylor v. State, 2025 Ark. App. 449; Naylor
v. State, 2025 Ark. App. 448.
On April 4, 2024, the State filed a single petition to revoke in this case and the two

other companion cases. The petition alleged that Naylor had violated the conditions of his

probation by failing to “live a law-abiding life, to be of good behavior, and not violate any

state, federal, or municipal laws” and more specifically alleged that “[o]n or about 2/26/24

Naylor was arrested for the felony offenses of Possession of a Controlled Substance

Methamphetamine . . . and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.”

The circuit court held a hearing on the State’s revocation petition on June 24, 2024.

This hearing was combined with the revocation hearings in the companion cases. The

evidence presented at the revocation hearing has been detailed in our separate opinion in

the companion case of Naylor v. State, 2025 Ark. App. ___. Because the facts, issues on

appeal, and arguments presented here are identical to those presented in the companion

case, which is also handed down today, it is unnecessary to restate them herein. On the basis

of the reasoning set forth in the companion case, we affirm Naylor’s revocation.

Affirmed.

KLAPPENBACH, C.J., and VIRDEN, J., agree.

Terry Goodwin Jones, for appellant.

Tim Griffin, Att’y Gen., by: James Hill, Ass’t Att’y Gen., for appellee.

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