Case ID: mo_206/html/0695-01.html
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Author: {"author": "BURGESS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE v. C. D. BAKER, Appellant.
    Division Two,
    November 19, 1907.
    APPEAL: New Trial: Overruling Motion: No Exception. Where defendant falls to except to the action of the court in overruling his motion for a new trial, there is nothing for review on appeal but the record proper, and if that is free from error, the judgment will be affirmed.
    Appeal from Howell Circuit Court. — How. Wm. .N. Evans, Judge.
    Affirmed.
    
      Herbert 8. Hadley, Attorney-General, and Y. T. 1Gentry, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
    The hill of exceptions does mot contain the motion for a new trial nor the motion in arrest of judgment; neither were exceptions saved to the overruling of said motions. There is, therefore, nothing before this court, ■except the record proper. State v. Reed, 89 Mo. 168; State v. Irwin, 171 Mo. 558.
   BURGESS, J.

Under an information filed by the prosecuting attorney of Howell county in the circuit court of said county the defendant was convicted of oh-taming property under false pretenses, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years. After unavailing motions for a new trial and in arrest, defendant appealed.

The defendant is not represented in this court, but upon examination of the record we find that no exception was taken and saved to the action of the court in overruling the motion for a new trial. By a long line of decisions of this court it has been held that unless an exception be taken at the time the motion is overruled, and saved by hill of exceptions, the action of the court is not the subject of review by this court. [State v. Parnell, infra, 723.]

The record proper appears to he free from error, and the judgment is affirmed.

All concur.