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194 Tenn. 296

Allen v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided February 9, 1952

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1952-02-09

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““This Court has over a long period of time held that when there is no final adjudication in these criminal cases then an appeal would not lie. See Nolin v. State, 46 Tenn. 12 ; Jordan v. State, 124 Tenn. 81 , 135 S.W. 327 , 34 L.R.A.,N.S., 1115; Mason v. State, 169 Tenn. 52 , 82 S.W.2d 862 .””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Bennett v. State

Relies on Jordan v. State · Mason v. State · Nolin v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1952-02-09

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1970

14 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Mr. Justice Burnett

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2This record presents an appeal by the plaintiff in error from the action of the trial judge in striking pleas of (1) former suit pending, (2) former judgment, and (3) former jeopardy. There was no final determination of the case. A motion was made to strike these pleas by the district attorney general and this motion of the district attorney general was sustained. To the action of the trial judge in sustaining the motion to strike these pleas this appeal was permitted.

¶3This question is not open to review either upon appeal or writ of error at this time for nothing has been finally adjudicated in the trial court. The cause still stands there for trial and until the plaintiff in error is cast in a final judgment in that court on the offense charged, he cannot appeal. Of course he can, as he did, preserve his exceptions to the action of the trial judge in striking these pleas and present this question if he is eventually found guilty of the offense charged.

¶4This is ,a very similar situation and the same rule applies as was applied by this Court in Houser v. Haven, 187 Term. 583, 216 S. W. (2d) 320. This Court there-held, following an earlier decision, that there was no authority in this State allowing a discretionary appeal to the circuit court from an interlocutory judgment. The Court also held that the statute (Code Section 9038) permitting appeals as to certain interlocutory orders does not permit appeals in tort actions. The same rule would apply in this case.

¶5This Court has over a long period of time held that when there is no final adjudication in these criminal cases *298then an appeal would not lie. See Nolin v. State, 46 Tenn. 12; Jordan v. State, 124 Tenn. 81, 135 S. W. 327, 34 L. R. A., N. S., 1115; Mason v. State, 169 Tenn. 52, 82 S. W. (2d) 862.

¶6It results that the motion by the State to dismiss this appeal must he sustained. The appeal is accordingly dismissed and the case remanded to the lower court for final disposition.

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