Case ID: ark_100/html/0148-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McCulloch, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Godard v. State.
    Opinion delivered June 19, 1911.
    Appeal — requisites.—Where a transcript on appeal does not show that an appeal was granted or asked, the transcript will be stricken from the files.
    
      W. N. Ivie and Jas. P. Fanchor, for appellant.
    
      Hal. L. Norwood, Attorney General, and William H. Rector, Assistant, for appellee.
    Where the record does not show that an appeal was prayed for and granted by the lower court, this court is without jurisdiction.
   McCulloch, C. J.

The defendant, Ben Godard, was, on March 11, 1911, convicted of the crime of forgery, and has filed a transcript of the record in this court. It does not appear, however, from the transcript that there was an appeal granted, or a prayer for an appeal entered. So this court has not acquired jurisdiction of the cause, and cannot review the proceedings of the circuit court. The transcript will, therefore, be stricken from the files of this court. It is so ordered.