Case Name: The State v. Leslie
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1884-12-09
Citations: 65 Iowa 305
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Leslie.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 305–306

Head Matter:
The State v. Leslie.
1. Appeal to Supreme Court: criminal case: deficient record. The record in this case showing no notice of an appeal, and being otherwise defective, the judgment of conviction for manslaughter cannot be disturbed.
Appeal from Cass District Court.
Tuesday, December 9.
The defendant was indicted and convicted for. the crime of manslaughter, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for three months, and to pay a fine of $500. She appeals.
No appearance for appellant.
Smith McPherson, Attorney-general, for the State.

Opinion:
Rothrock, Ch. J.
The cause is submitted to us upon a transcript, without either abstract or argument, and the attorney-general, in a written motion, calls our attention to some questions pertaining to the sufficiency of the record. The défendant was jointly indicted with her husband for causing the death -of defendant's mother, a very aged and feeble woman, and a member of defendant's family. It was charged that the deceased came to her death by reason of the neglect and cruel treatment of the defendant and her husband. The trial was had in February, 1882. Time was taken until the next term to move for a new trial. A motion for a new trial was overruled in September, 1883.
The translation of -the short-hand reporter's notes of the evidence was not filed in the office of the clerk of the district court until January 25, 1884. No time was taken to settle a bill of exceptions, and the only authentication of the evidence is a certificate of the trial judge attached to the translation of the evidence. The certificate is without any date. There is no evidence of the service of any notice of appeal to be found in the record. In this condition of the record we are without jurisdiction to examine any question in the case. The record should show that an appeal was taken. In the absence of such showing we cannot disturb the judgment.
Affirmed.