Case Name: Wiggins v. State of Indiana
Court: Appellate Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1922-02-01
Citations: 77 Ind. App. 473
Docket Number: No. 11,304
Parties: Wiggins v. State of Indiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 473–474

Head Matter:
Wiggins v. State of Indiana.
[No. 11,304.
Filed February 1, 1922.]
Criminal Law. — Motion in Arrest of Judgment. — Time for Filing. — A motion in arrest of judgment in a criminal case must precede the entry of judgment, and it is too late when made after judgment and sentence.
From Marion Criminal Court (51,567) ; James A. Collins, Judge.
Prosecution by the State of Indiana against Charles F. Wiggins. From a judgment of conviction, the defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Holmes & McCallister, for appellant.
U. S. Lesh, Attorney-General, and Mrs. Edward Franklin White, for the state.

Opinion:
Enloe, J.
The appellant was tried and convicted in the Marion Criminal Court upon a charge of contributing to the delinquency of certain named children. The cause was tried by the court, without a jury, and a sentence of fine and imprisonment imposed. There was a motion for a new trial which was overruled, also a motion in arrest of judgment which motion was also overruled and appellant excepted.
The only error assigned in this court is: "The court erred in overruling appellant's motion in arrest of judgment."
Upon oral argument of this case the attention of counsel for appellant having been called to the fact that his motion was made and the ruling thereon given after judgment and sentence had been pronounced, he frankly conceded that said motion was made too late; that it should have preceded the entry of judgment; and that therefore no question was presented for our decision in this appeal. Smith v. State (1895), 140 Ind. 343, 39 N. E. 1060.
The judgment of the Marion Criminal Court is therefore affirmed.