Brown v State

Brown v State
1947 OK CR 41
179 P.2d 478
84 Okl.Cr. 115
Decided: 04/09/1947
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

(Syllabus.)

1. Appeal and Error-Dismissal of Appeal Where not Taken Within Statutory Time. When an appeal in a misdemeanor case is not taken within the 60 days prescribed by the statute (22 0. S. 1941 § 1054), the record or case-made must affirmatively

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show that the trial court or judge thereof for good cause shown extended the time; otherwise, this court is without jurisdiction to review the judgment, and such appeal will be dismissed.

2. Same Failure to File Appeal Within Statutory Time Fatal to Appeal. A failure to file the appeal in the appellate court within the time allowed by law is fatal to the appeal, and the appellate court has no discretion to hear and determine appeal on its merits when it is not taken within the time prescribed by statute.

3. Same Appeal Dismissed. Record examined, and appeal in misdemeanor case is dismissed because filed in appellate court more than 60 days after pronouncement of judgment and sentence, and record does not disclose that any extension of time in which such an appeal could have been filed was given.

Appeal from County Court, Major County; Harry Randall, Judge.

Bill Brown was convicted of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals. Appeal dismissed, and cause remanded with directions to enforce the judgment and sentence.

Willis & Manning, of Fairview, for plaintiff in error.

Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

JONES, J. This is an attempted appeal from a conviction sustained by the defendant in the county court of Major county.

The verdict of the jury was returned on March 6, 1945. Motion for new trial was filed on March 9, 1945. Because of the illness of the defendant the pronouncement of judgment and sentence in accordance with the verdict of the jury was postponed until April 19, 1945 at 10:00 a.m. On April 19, 1945, the motion for new trial was overruled and judgment and sentence was entered in accordance with the verdict of the jury. No extension of time was ever asked or given to the defendant to file his appeal in the Criminal

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Court of Appeals. The appeal was filed in the Criminal Court of Appeals on July 10, 1945, which was more than 60 days after the rendition of the judgment.

On behalf of the state, the Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal for the reason that it was not taken within the 60 days prescribed by statute, 22 0. S. 1941 § 1054. No response was filed by the defendant to the motion to dismiss.

In Jump v. State, 76 Okla. Cr. 9, 133 P.2d 561, this court held:

"When an appeal in a misdemeanor case is not taken within the 60 days prescribed by the statute (Section 3192, 0. S. 1931, 22 0. S. 1941 § 1054), the record or case-made must affirmatively show that the trial court or judge thereof for good cause shown extended the time; otherwise this court is without jurisdiction to review the judgment, and such appeal will be dismissed."

See, also, Gunter v. State, 13 Okla. Cr. 83, 162 P. 231; Wilkerson v. State, 76 Okla. Cr. 152, 134 P.2d 998. Miller v. State, 78 Okla. Cr. 112, 144 P.2d 120.