Case ID: mo-app_49/html/0311-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Biggs, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Missouri, Respondent, v. A. J. Caughron, Appellant.
    St. Louis Court of Appeals,
    April 19, 1892.
    Practice, Appellate: payment on docket pee in criminal case. A defendant in a criminal case, who appeals to this court, must pay the docket fee; in ease of his failure to do so his appeal may he dismissed.
    
      
      Appeal from the Bipley Circuit Cowrt. — Hon. John Gr. Weak, Judge.
    Appeal dismissed. ,
    No brief filed for appellant.
    No brief filed for respondent.
   Biggs, J.

The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted of a misdemeanor, at the October term, 1890, of the circuit court of Ripley county. An appeal was granted at the same term. The clerk of the circuit court transmitted the record to the clerk of this court, but it was not filed, or the case docketed, by reason of the defendant’s failure to pay the docket fee in this court. On the nineteenth of February, 1892, the prosecuting attorney of the county paid the docket fee, and he now asks that the defendant’s appeal be dismissed.

The statute makes it our duty to examine the record in a criminal case, although the defendant has failed to assign error, or file briefs, but we know of no law which 'exempts him from paying the docket fee.

The plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the appeal will be sustained, and an order of dismissal entered.

All the judges concur.