Case ID: ala-app_19/html/0595-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "FOSTER, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(99 South. 662)
    (4 Div. 874.)
    WHIGHAM v. STATE.
    (C.ourt of Appeals of Alabama.
    April 8, 1924.)
    Criminal law <@=»I083 — Circuit court has no jurisdiction to entertain motion for new trial after appeal by defendant.
    After appeal by defendant, jurisdiction was transferred from the circuit court to the Court of Appeals, and the former could not thereafter entertain a motion for new trial.
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    Appeal from Circuit Court, Barbour County; J. S. Williams, Judge.
    Hillery Whigham was convicted of grand larceny, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    G. E. Jones, of Clayton, for appellant.
    No brief reached the Reporter.
    Harwell G. Davis, Atty. . Gen., for the State.
    No brief reached the Reporter.
   FOSTER, J.

The appellant was convicted of grand larceny. On April 19, 1923, sentence was pronounced by the court upon the defendant. An appeal was immediately taken to this court, and defendant executed an appeal bond. After appeal was taken a motion for new trial was made. After an appeal was taken by the defendant jurisdiction was transferred from the circuit court to this court, and the trial court was without authority to entertain the motion for a new trial. Sherman v. State, 15 Ala. App. 175, 72 South. 755; State ex rel. Atty. Gen. v. Brewer, ante, p. 330, 97 South. 777.

There is no bill of exceptions. There is no error in the record. The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.

Affirmed.