Case Name: Joseph E. Weir, Impleaded with George S. Aldrich, v. State of Nebraska
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1931-04-24
Citations: 121 Neb. 129
Docket Number: No. 27834
Parties: Joseph E. Weir, Impleaded with George S. Aldrich, v. State of Nebraska.
Judges: Heard before Goss, C. J., Rose, Dean, Eberly, Day and Paine, JJ.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 121
Pages: 129–130

Head Matter:
Joseph E. Weir, Impleaded with George S. Aldrich, v. State of Nebraska.
Filed April 24, 1931.
No. 27834.
McNeny, Gilham & Sprague, for plaintiff in error.
C. A. Sorensen, Attorney General, George W. Ayres and Frank S. Howell, contra.
Heard before Goss, C. J., Rose, Dean, Eberly, Day and Paine, JJ.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
In this case an indictment was returned by a grand jury impaneled in Nuckolls county, Nebraska, charging the defendant Aldrich (plaintiff in error) and another with an offense. To this indictment the defendant Aldrich interposed a plea in abatement, which was tried to the court and by it overruled. From that decision the defendant prosecutes error. The record discloses that this proceeding in error is here presented by stipulation of the parties, and that, pending its determination, proceedings in the case below are by agreement continued, and also that no final disposition thereof had been made at the time of this hearing.
The rulings of the district court in a criminal case cannot be reviewed by this court prior to the rendition of final judgment in the prosecution, and consent of the parties is incapable of conferring jurisdiction of the subject-matter.
"An order of the district court overruling a plea in abatement to an indictment is not a final order within the meaning of the statute, and a petition in error cannot be prosecuted therefrom previous to the prisoner's conviction." Gartner v. State, 36 Neb. 280. See Green v. State, 10 Neb. 102; Farrington v. State, 116 Neb. 712.
The present condition of this record therefore necessitates the dismissal of the petition in error for want of jurisdiction.
Dismissed.