Case Title: State v. Hickerson

Citation: 184 Kan. 483, 337 P.2d 706

Docket Number: 41,244

State: kansas

Court: Kansas Supreme Court

Date: 1959-04-11T00:00:00Z

Document:
184 Kan. 483 (1959)
337 P.2d 706
STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee,
v.
ALLAN HICKERSON, Appellant.
No. 41,244

Supreme Court of Kansas.
Opinion filed April 11, 1959.
Elmer Hoge, of Overland Park, argued the cause, and was on the briefs for the appellant.
Herbert W. Walton, assistant county attorney, argued the cause, and John Anderson, Jr., attorney general, Robert Hoffman, assistant attorney general, and John J. Gardner, county attorney, were with him on the brief for the appellee.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
JACKSON, J.:
The appellant was charged in the magistrate court of Johnson county with molesting a minor child. After a trial and conviction appellant appealed to the district court. After the case reached the district court, the state filed a new information changing the alleged date of the crime. Thereupon, appellant filed a plea of former jeopardy and a plea in abatement. At a hearing before the district court, the court sustained a demurrer to the plea of former jeopardy and also entered an order overruling the plea in abatement.
Appellant has appealed from those orders of the district court assigning error therein.
*484 At the outset, we are faced with a question not raised and briefed by the parties. It is clear that the statutes pertaining to criminal procedure and to appeal in criminal cases only provide for an appeal by a defendant in a criminal case after a final judgment therein. Section 62-1701 of G.S. 1949 reads as follows:
In State v. Brown, 144 Kan. 573, 61 P.2d 901, the syllabus reads:
In the opinion, after stating the law of the above syllabus, the court continued:
Attention may also be directed to the case of State v. Wallace, 172 Kan. 734, 243 P.2d 216, in which the late Mr. Chief Justice Harvey, who wrote the opinions in both the Brown and Wallace cases, cites many additional cases to the effect that this court has no appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases until after final judgment.
The appeal herein must be dismissed. It is so ordered.