Case Name: PEOPLE v. SYLVESTER F. WILSON
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1892-12-16
Citations: 10 N.Y. Crim. 314
Docket Number: 
Parties: PEOPLE v. SYLVESTER F. WILSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Criminal Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 314–315

Head Matter:
Supreme Court-General Term-First Department.
December 16, 1892.
PEOPLE v. SYLVESTER F. WILSON.
(50 St. Rep. 419.)
Appeal—Dismissal.
Where a motion to dismiss an appeal in a criminal case for want of prosecution has been denied upon a stipulation by the appellant that it may be dismissed if he is not ready for the argument at the following term, a similar motion, made at the following term, will be granted, though he makes an affidavit that he has been unable to procure the stenographer’s notes in time to comply with his stipulation.
Motion to dismiss appeal.
Delancey Nicoll, dist. atty., for the motion.
J. D. Hallen, opposed.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
When a motion was made at the last term to dismiss this appeal, an affidavit was filed in which it was distinctly stated that the appeal might be dismissed unless the defendant was ready for argument at the present term. Although the defendant was seriously in default, so much so that in a civil case he would not have been relieved, the court yielded to the earnest solicitations of counsel, and agreed to give him one more opportunity of presenting his case. Another motion has now been made to dismiss, and again it appears that the def endant has been derelict. The stipulation which he made in accordance with his own offer after our decision has not been complied with, and again he appeals for the exercise of further discretion to enable him to delay the bearing of this appeal. The defendant states in his affidavit that he has been unable, with due diligence, to obtain the stenographer's notes in time to comply with the stipulation; but be should have thought of this before he deliberately offered to enter, and 'entered, into such stipulation. When he asked the court to make the order in question, he knew just what he would have to do with reference to obtaining the stenographer's notes. He says that the assistant district attorney agreed to take the case at a day later than that specified in the stipulation; but he furnishes us with no such agreement in writing, and the fact that the district attorney presses this motion indicates very clearly that the suggestion of a verbal agreement is disputed. There has been most unreasonable and persistent delay and inactivity in bringing on this appeal; and the only activity Which the court has observed on the part of the appellant is the unauthorized and improper communications which he persists in addressing to the judges, communications which his counsel, if he were aware of them, should have prevented. We think that this appeal must he dismissed.
VAN BRUNT, P. J., O'BRIEN and BARRETT, JJ.; concur.