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95 Tenn. 391

Bailey v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided October 3, 1895

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1895-10-03

<p>Supbbme Court. Jurisdiction.</p> <p>This Court acquires no jurisdiction where an appeal is prayed, hut not granted, and will strike the cause from the docket. Code construed: $ 3876 (M. & V.); § 3259 (T. & S.).</p> <p>Cases cited and approved: Craig-head v. Rankin, 6 Bax., 131; O’Riley v. Zollieoffer, 4 Yer.. 298; Childress v. Marks, 2 Bax., 12; Snyder v. Summers, 1 Lea, 482.</p>

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The case is not properly in this court, because no appeal was granted in the court below. All that appears in the transcript on the subject of appeal, is found in an entry upon the minutes of that court, which is as follows: ‘From the action of the court in refusing to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial, the defendant excepts, and prays an appeal to the Supreme Court, sitting at Knoxville.’ That entry is fatally defective, in that it fails to show, additionally, that the prayer for appeal was granted. It shows the requisite action on the part of the defendant, but no action, in response, on the part of the court. Both prayer offered by the former and granted by the latter, were indispensable.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Green v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1895-10-03

How this case has been cited

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1974

3 state decisions

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Caldwell, J.

¶1B. B. Bailey was convicted and fined fifty dollars, in the Circuit Court of Sevier County, for unlawfully carrying arms. He has appealed to this Court, by counsel, asking a reversal and new trial.

¶2*392The case is not properly in this Court, because no appeal was granted in the Court below. All that appears in the transcript on the subject of appeal, is found in an entry upon the minutes of that Court, which is as follows: “From the action of the Court in refusing to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial, the defendant excepts, and prays an appeal to the Supreme Court, sitting at Knoxville.” That entry is fatally defective, in that it fails to show, additionally, that the prayer for appeal was granted. It shows the requisite action on the part of the defendant, but no action, in response, on the- part of the Court. Both prayer offered by the former and granted by the latter, were indispensable. Code (M. & V.), § 3876; History of a Lawsuit (Martin’s Ed.), Secs. 280, 287; Craighead v. Rankin, 6 Bax., 131; O'Riley v. Zollicoffer, 4 Yer., 298; 2 Bax., 12; 1 Lea, 482; 2 Enc. Pl. & Pr., 203-4.

¶3Strike the case from the docket.

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