Case Name: STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent, v. DAVID WILSON, Appellant
Court: Kansas City Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1910-04-04
Citations: 140 Mo. App. 726
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent, v. DAVID WILSON, Appellant.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 140
Pages: 726–727

Head Matter:
STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent, v. DAVID WILSON, Appellant.
Kansas City Court of Appeals,
April 4, 1910.
JURISDICTION: Felony: Appeal. Where on an information charging ari' assault with intent to kill 'and murder, the punishment is fixed at $100, the case is one involving a charge of felony, and the Supreme Court alone has jurisdiction.
Appeal from Buchanan Criminal Court. — Eon. T. F. Ryan, Judge.
Transferred to Supreme Court.
Mytton cG Parkinson for appellant.
Chas. F. Keller, for respondent, filed no brief.

Opinion:
ELLISON, J.
The defendant was charged in an information with an assauit with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and murder. He was convicted of what is termed a common assault, and fined one hundred dollars, and thereupon he took his appeal to this court.
We think we have not jurisdiction of the cause. The charge is of a felony. An assault with intent to kill may be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary. [Sec. 1848, Revised Statutes 1899.] And any crime which may have the penitentiary for its punishment, is a felony. [Sec. 2398, R. S. 1899.] This court has jurisdiction of misdemeanors alone and a misdemeanor is an ofíense punishable by fine or county jail only. These matters have been heretofore determined, and the fact that a punishment has been assessed at a fine does not affect jurisdiction. [State v. Gilmore, 28 Mo. App. 561; State v. Melton, 117 Mo. 618; State v. Zinn, 141 Mo. 329; State v. Melton, 53 Mb. App. 646.]
The case will be transferred to the Supreme Court.
All concur.