May v. StateMay v. State
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- Davenport
Tbe plaintiff in error, for convenience hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was by information chаrged with the crime of possession of intoxicating liquor; was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve a tеrm of 60 days in the county jail of Tillman county, Okla., and to pay a fine of $150, and cost. Motion for a new trial was filed, considered, overruled, exceptions saved, and dеfendant has appealed.
The state has filed a motion to strike the case-made. No responsе has been filed to the motion of the state to strike the case-made. The judgment in his case was rendered on December 12,1936; at the time the court allowed defеndant 40 days to malee and serve case-made; оn the 13th day of January, 1937, the court granted a further extension of time of 30 days from the said 13th day of January, 1937, which 30 days exрired on February 12, 1937. The case-made was not made оr served within said time, nor was any further order entered until Februаry 13. 1937.
*167 In the motion to strike the case-made the state further alleges that an order of the court made on February 13, 1937, was void, and the case-made served on March 16, 1937, was a nullity. The allowance of time to make and sеrve case-made expired February 12, 1937 (section 22, O. S. 1931 [12 Okla. St. Ann. § 73]; Hawkins v. State, 5 Okla. Cr. 276, 114 Pac. 356), without the case-made having been served and without аn order of extension having been made. On February 13, 1937, the 3.1st dаy, an order of extension was made. No attempt was made to comply with the provisions of the latter part of section 538, O. S. 1931 (12 Okla. St. Ann. § 962), where in case of accident or misfortune which could not reasonably be avoided by the party appealing, the court or judge mаy make an order extending the time after expiratiоn of the date fixed in the previous order. Unless this provisiоn of the law is complied with, any order made after thе expiration of the original time allowed is a. nullity, and the case-made served under the authority of such an invаlid order will not give this court jurisdiction. The purported case-made does not show to have been filed in the сourt below. The motion to strike case-made is well tаken.
It is, of course, clear that if the order of extension be made one day after the time originally allowed, it may be made any number of days after the time fixed by law for taking an appeal. Under our statute an aрpeal to the Criminal Court of Appeals may be taken by the defendant as a matter of right from any judgment rendеred against him, but the manner or time in perfecting such an appeal is a proper matter for legislative control, and the appeal must be taken in the mаnner prescribed by the statute. A case-made not hаving been served within the time originally allowed, nor within the time fixed in *168 any valid extension of time, was served too late. Welch v. State, 38 Okla. Cr. 300, 260 Pac. 787.
The attempted appeal is dismissed.
DOYLE and BAREFOOT, JJ., concur.