CRITSER v. STATE

CRITSER v. STATE
1950 OK CR 34
215 P.2d 859
91 Okl.Cr. 69
Case Number: A-11090
Decided: 03/08/1950
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

Appeal and Error Appeal in Felony Case Must Be Taken Within Six Months. In felony cases the appeal must be taken within six months after the judgment is rendered. Tit. 22 O.S.A. § 1054 [22-1054]. In such cases the appeal is taken by filing in the Criminal Court of Appeals a petition in error with case-made

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attached, or transcript of the record, together with proof of service of notice of appeal as required by statute, and when this is not done within the time prescribed by the statute, Criminal Court of Appeals does not acquire jurisdiction of the appeal, and such an appeal will be dismissed.

Appeal from District Court, Tulsa County; Eben L. Taylor, Judge.

Bill Critser was convicted of the crime of robbery by force, and he appeals. Purported appeal dismissed.

Harry Seaton and Q.M. Dickason, public defenders, Tulsa County, Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., and Sam H. Lattimore, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

POWELL, J.

Plaintiff in error, Bill Critser, was convicted in the district court of Tulsa county of the crime of robbery by force, the jury leaving the punishment to be fixed by the court. Thereafter, judgment was entered on December 15, 1947, the court sentencing the defendant to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of five years. From the judgment an appeal was attempted to be taken by filing in this court on June 25, 1948, a petition in error with case-made.

The Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal based upon the fact that said appeal was not taken within six months from the date on which the judgment was rendered.

Tit. 22 O.S.A. § 1054 [22-1054], provides:

" * * * In felony cases the appeal must be taken within six months after the judgment is rendered, and a transcript in both felony and misdemeanor cases must be filed as hereinafter directed."

The six-months period having expired prior to the filing of the petition in error and case-made, this court did

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not acquire jurisdiction of the appeal. Smith v. State, 20 Okla. Cr. 123, 201 P. 661; Johnson v. State, 70 Okla. Cr. 322, 106 P.2d 128.

It follows that the motion to dismiss the appeal must be sustained.

It is therefore ordered that the purported appeal be and the same is hereby dismissed.

JONES, P.J., and BRETT, J., concur.