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39 Ala. App. 441

Rogers v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided March 11, 1958

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1958-03-11

Relies on 38 Ala. App. 480 - Clark v. State · 38 Ala. App. 487 - Lane v. State · Harper v. State

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Decided 1958-03-11

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HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

¶1This appellant was adjudged guilty on 24 November 1956.

¶2On 10 December 1956 he gave notice of appeal.

¶3On 4 January 1957 a motion for a new trial was filed, and was set for hearing on 26 January 1957.

¶4An amendment to the motion for a new trial was filed on 2 February 1957, and the motion for a new trial as amended was heard and overruled on that day.

¶5The transcript of the record was filed in the circuit court' on 17 January 1957, and the entire record was filed in this court on 3 April 1957.

¶6The Attorney General has filed a motion to strike this record because not timely filed.

¶7The motion is well taken.

¶8The motion for a new trial was not filed' until 4 January 1957, some 41 days-after judgment. The motion, and orders, pursuant thereto, were therefore functus, officio, the lower court having lost jurisdiction to entertain such motion upon the expiration of 30 days from the date of judgment. Bullard v. State, 29 Ala.App. 117, 192 So. 430; Clark v. State, 38 Ala.App. 480, 87 So.2d 669.

¶9We must therefore look to the date of the notice of appeal, that is, 10 December 1956 in reckoning the time.

¶10The transcript of evidence was timely filed in the circuit court, that is, within-60 days of the date of the notice of appeal.

¶11The record was not however filed in-this court until 3 April 1957, some 75 days-after the filing of the transcript of the record in the circuit court.

¶12No request for extension of time for filing the record was requested either in the court below, or in this court.

¶13The motion of the Attorney General to strike the record is therefore well taken. Clark v. State, supra; Lane v. State, 38 Ala.App. 487, 87 So.2d 668.

¶14Record stricken; appeal dismissed.

¶15On Rehearing.

HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

¶16In appellant’s application for rehearing his counsel argues that the date from which we should reckon the time limits in reference to filing the record in this court is 4 February 1957, the date on which the motion for a new trial was overruled.

¶17Counsel argues that judgment of sentence was entered on 10 December 1956, and that *443date should govern in determining the date of judgment.

¶18The record shows that a formal judgment of guilt was entered on 24 November 1956, and the court on that day deferred sentencing until 8 December 1956, to await the report of the probation officer. On 8 December 1956 the hearing on the application for probation, and sentencing was continued to 10 December, on which date the •court formally imposed a sentence.

¶19Appellant’s contention is without merit.

¶20Appeals are statutory, and by Section 367, Title 15, Code of Alabama 1940, an appeal lies only from the judgment of •conviction.

¶21The judgment referred to in Section 119, Title 13, Code of Alabama 1940, in which it is provided that a motion for ■new trial must be requested within 30 days from the rendition of a judgment, must be deemed to mean the judgment from which an appeal is authorized. See Harper v. State, 13 Ala.App. 47, 69 So. 302.

¶22Application denied.

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