Case Name: HOWARD SHELL v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1922-03-25
Citations: 21 Okla. Crim. 130
Docket Number: No. A-3730
Parties: HOWARD SHELL v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 130–132

Head Matter:
HOWARD SHELL v. STATE.
No. A-3730.
Opinion Filed March 25, 1922.
(205 Pac. 192.)
Pruiett, Sniggs, Patterson & Morris, J. J. Mitchell, and H. A. Wilkinson, for plaintiff in error.
The Attorney General and E. L. Fulton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
PER. CURIAM.
Howard Shell was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of the crime of receiving stolen property, and punishment assessed as above stated. He has. attempted appeal to this court from the judgment of conviction rendered against him in said trial court, but upon examination of the record we are of opinion that this court has never acquired jurisdiction of said appeal for the following reasons:
(1) No notices of appeal were ever served upon the court clerk or thef county attorney as provided in section 5992, Revised Laws 1910, within the period' allowed for taking an appeal in felony cases to this court.
(2) No summons in error was ever issued and served upon the Attorney General, nor any waiver of the issuance and service of such a summons ever made by said officer, or any general appearance entered by him, as provided in section 5997, Revised Laws 1910, within the time allowed by law for taking an appeal in felony cases. The appellant gave oral notice of this appeal in the trial court, but such notice is insufficient. Burgess v. State, 18 Okla. Cr. 574, 197 Pac. 173. ,
There is also found with the papers in this ease what purports to be a' waiver of the issuance of summons in error and the entering of an appearance by the Attorney General. This paper, however, is undated, and1 was never filed in this court until October 26, 1920, long after the six-month period after the rendition of judgment, and it must affirmatively appear from the record in felony cases, either that notices of appeal were issued and served within six months after the rendition of a felony judgment or summons in error was issued or served upon the Attorney General, or the waiver of said issuance and service or general appearance entered by said officer within said period. Any service of notices or agreements entered into between attorneys after the expiration of the statutory period for taking an appeal do not have the effect of lodging jurisdiction of the appeal in this court. All steps necessary to perfecting the appeal in a felony case must be taken within six months after the rendition of the judgment in the trial court. Hughes v. State, 4 Okla. Cr. 333, 111 Pac. 964.