Case Name: STATE, Respondent, v. BUTTS, Appellant
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: South Dakota
Decision Date: 1917-01-20
Citations: 38 S.D. 227
Docket Number: File No. 4003
Parties: STATE, Respondent, v. BUTTS, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Dakota Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 227–227

Head Matter:
STATE, Respondent, v. BUTTS, Appellant.
(160 N. W. 1006.)
(File No. 4003.
Opinion filed January 20, 1917.)
Appeals — Delay in Prosecuting — No Brief Piled — Abandonment— Affirmance.
Where certified copy of notice of appeal was filed in March., the record having 'been settled prior to talcing appeal, and ao> ■pellant filing no brief before the following January, appeal will be deemed abandoned and judgment affirmed.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County. Hon. Thomas L. Boucic, Judge.
Proceedings by the State ¡against W. M. Butts. Erorn a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Affirmed1.
Otto L. Kam, for Appellant.
Clarence C. Caldwell, Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
McCOY, J.
A certified copy of notice of appeal having been filed in this court ¡by defendant, appellant, on the 23d day of March, 1916, and the record having been settled prior to the taking of suoh- appeal, and appellant having filed no- brief, the said appeal is therefore deemed abandoned, and the judgment appealed from is affirmed.