Case Name: State of Missouri, Appellant, vs. Doctor W. Mullix, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1873-08
Citations: 53 Mo. 355
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Missouri, Appellant, vs. Doctor W. Mullix, Respondent.
Judges: Judges "Wagner and Napton absent; the other Judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 53
Pages: 355–356

Head Matter:
State of Missouri, Appellant, vs. Doctor W. Mullix, Respondent.
1. Practice, criminal — Final .judgment — Appeal.—In criminal, as in Civil cases, no appeal will lie without final judgments; as where on demurrer sustained, ■ none was rendered.
Appeal from Harrison Circuit Court.
S. A. Young, for Appellant.

Opinion:
Sherwood, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Despondent was indicted for grand larceny, and demurred to the indictment, which the court held to be insufficient.; but no final judgment was entered. The State thereupon appealed to this court. The same rule prevails in criminal as in civil cases, that no appeal can be taken except upon a final judgment; and yet, ease after case comes up to every term of, and encumbers every docket of, this court, in which no final determination of the cause has been had in the court below. (State vs. Pepper, 7 Mo., 348; State vs. Gregory, 38 Mo., 501.)
Let the appeal be dismissed.-
Judges "Wagner and Napton absent; the other Judges concur.