Case Name: STATE v. REAMES
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1914-11-04
Citations: 136 La. 51
Docket Number: No. 20774
Parties: STATE v. REAMES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 136
Pages: 51–51

Head Matter:
(66 South. 394)
No. 20774.
STATE v. REAMES.
(Nov. 4, 1914.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
'Courts <&wkey;224^SuPREME Courts — Jurisdiction — Judgment Forfeiting Appearance Bond.
The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over an appeal from a judgment forfeiting an appearance bond for $150, in a prosecution for carrying concealed weapons. In misdemeanors, the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court depends on the punishment actually imposed. Const. 1913, art. 85.
[Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see Courts, Cent. Dig. §§ 487, 608, 609, 614, 616, 617; Dee. Dig. ■&wkey;224J
Appeal from Second District Court, Parish of Webster; J. N. Sandlin,'Judge.
An appearance bond given by Thomas Reames, conditioned for his appearance to answer an information charging him with carrying concealed weapons, was forfeited and a judgment rendered in solido against him and his sureties, and, from the overruling of motion to set aside the judgment, they appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
L. K. Watkins, of Minden, for appellants. Ruffin G. Pleasant, Atty. Gen., and Thomas W. Robertson, Dist. Atty., of Minden (G. A. Gondran, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
LAND, J.
Defendant was charged on information with carrying concealed weapons, and was released on an appearance bond in the sum of $150, with the usual conditions. The bond was duly forfeited at the next term of court and judgment rendered in solido against the defendant and his two sureties, who on the same day moved to set aside the judgment on the same grounds urged by them in the case of State v. Thomas Reames, 66 South. 393 (No. 20773), this day handed down. The motion was overruled, and the sureties have appealed.
We do, not think that we have any jurisdiction of this appeal, as neither the offense nor the amount in dispute are within our jurisdiction. In misdemeanor cases our jurisdiction is determined by the punishment actually imposed and not by punishment which may or may not be imposed. See Const. 1913, art. 85.
As the appeal is Of a quasi criminal character, the Court of Appeals is without jurisdiction in the premises, and hence the appeal cannot be transferred to that court.
Appeal dismissed.
Ante, p. 48.