7 Okla. Crim. 39
121 P 791
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided March 7, 1912
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · decided 1912-03-07
M. Rainey, Judge. Clarence Weston was convicted of manslaughter in the first ■degree, and sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for thirty years, and appeals.
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Dismissed · Decided 1912-03-07
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1957
12 state decisions
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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¶1 Judgment wasf rendered against appellant’ on the 10th day of May, 1910, but the transcript of the record was not filed in this court until the 6th day of April, 1911. • Our statute is mandatory that appeals in felony cases must be perfected within six months,after date of the judgment. This appeal was not perfected until nearly eleven months after the judgment was rendered.
¶2 We therefore have no discretion, but must dismiss the appeal. See Farmer v. State, 5 Okla. Cr. 151, 114 Pac. 753.