Title: Weber v. State

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
PAUL E. WEBER, 
 
 
) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
)  No. 592, 2001 
 
 
Defendant below,  
) 
 
 
Appellant,  
 
)  Court Below:  Superior Court 
 
 
 
 
 
 
)  of the State of Delaware in 
v. 
 
 
 
 
 
)  and for New Castle County 
 
 
 
 
 
 
) 
STATE OF DELAWARE, 
 
)  Cr. A. Nos. 00-11-0359 and 0011-0360 
 
 
 
 
 
 
)  Cr. ID No. 0010007121 
 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
 
) 
 
 
Appellee. 
 
 
) 
 
Submitted:  September 4, 2002 
Decided:  October 4, 2002 
 
Before, VEASEY, Chief Justice, WALSH, and STEELE, Justices. 
O R D E R 
 
This 4th day of October, 2002, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) 
In July 2000, a Superior Court jury found the defendant-appellant 
Paul Weber guilty of Forgery in the Second Degree and Misdemeanor Theft.  The 
trial judge sentenced Weber to thirty days at Supervision Level V for each offense.  
This is Weber’s direct appeal. 
(2) 
Pursuant to Article IV, Section 11(1)(b) of the Delaware Constitution, 
this Court lacks jurisdiction to receive an appeal in a criminal matter unless the 
sentence imposed is a term of imprisonment exceeding one month or a fine 
 
2
exceeding $100.1  Neither of Weber’s convictions resulted in a term of 
imprisonment exceeding one month nor a fine exceeding $100.  A defendant is not 
permitted to aggregate penalties in order to meet the jurisdictional thresholds set by 
the Delaware Constitution.2  Consequently, this Court lacks jurisdiction to consider 
this appeal.  
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
_/s/ Myron T. Steele__________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                 
1 See also Brookens v. State, Del. Supr., 466 A.2d 1218, 1219 (1988). 
2 Marker v. State, Del. Supr., 450 A.2d 397, 399 (1982).