Case ID: mo_109/html/0224-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Macfarlane, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Saye, Appellant.
    
    DIVISION TWO.
    Criminal Practice: appeal: jurisdiction. Where the conviction on a trial for a felony is for a lower offense amounting only to a misdemeanor, the court of appeals, and not the supreme court, has jurisdiction of an appeal therefrom.'
    
      
      Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. M. GL McGregor, Judge.
    Transferred to Kansas city court oe appeals.
    
      Haughawout dk Shannon for appellant.
    
      John M. Wood, Attorney General, for the State.
   Macfarlane, J.

The attorney general files a motion to transfer this cause to the Kansas City court of appeals, for the reason that defendant was found guilty of, and sentenced for, a misdemeanor, and not for a felony. An examination of the record shows that defendant was indicted for an assault with attempt to commit a rape, and was found guilty by the jury of a common assault and his punishment assessed at sixty days’ imprisonment in the county jail.

This court has appellate jurisdiction of felony eases, and the courts of appeals of misdemeanor cases. The indictment was under a statute which makes the crime charged a felony, but the verdict and sentence was under a statute declaring the offense of which he was found guilty a misdemeanor only. The appeal was from a judgment under a misdemeanor statute, and the court of appeals has exclusive jurisdiction. State v. White, ante, p. 224.

Ordered that the case be transferred to the Kansaé City court of appeals.

All concur.