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149 Mo. 439

State v. Thompson

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided May 9, 1899

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1899-05-09

— Hon. L. B. Woodside, Judge. • The instrument sent to the clerk of this court and filed by the clerk as the bill of exceptions in the case does not disclose when it was filed in the office of the clerk of the court below, nor does it appear to have ever been signed by the judge. This court has universally held that bills of exceptions must be filed within the time allowed by the trial court and must be signed by the judge of such court, els© the same will not be considered.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1901

1 state decisions

Relies on Garth v. Caldwell

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Affirmed · Decided 1899-05-09

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SHERWOOD, J.

¶1Defendant was convicted of a felonious assault on Jeff Petty, by shooting at him with a pistol and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100, and imprisonment in the county jail for three months.

¶2On the twenty-first of September, 1897, an appeal was granted defendant, and he given ninety days in which to file his bill of exceptions.

¶3On the fourteenth of December next thereafter, the court extended the time for filing to January 15, 1898. The record then has this entry: “And afterwards, to wit, on the —-day of January, 1898, in vacation, the said defendant filed in said court, with the clerk thereof, his bill of exceptions in said cause, which said bill of exceptions had the following indorsement thereon: ‘Filed on the-day of January, 1898/ ”

¶4From this entry it does not appear that the bill was filed within the time allowed by the order of the court. More than that, the supposed bill has not been signed by the judge and therefore can not be regarded. [Garth v. Caldwell, 72 Mo. 622, and cases cited.]

¶5This being the case and there being no error in the record proper, judgment affirmed.

All concur.
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