Crisp v. State

¶1 Plaintiff in error, Charley Crisp, was convicted in the district court of Grady county on a charge that he did take and steal five automobile casings and inner tubes of the value of $75, the property of the Gilkey-Jarboe Hardware Company, and in accordance with the verdict of the jury he was sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary at Granite for a term of two years. On November 17, 1919, judgment was rendered. On May 13, 1920, ¡an appeal therefrom was perfected by filing in this court a petition in error with case-made. On May 26, 1920, counsel for plaintiff in error filed a motion' to dismiss the appeal for the reason “that plaintiff in error no lojnger desires to prosecute the same and has begun to serve his sentence therein.” The motion to dismiss-is sustained, and the cause is remanded to the. lower court.