Title: Bacon v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 620, 2012
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: December 4, 2012

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
DEVEARL BACON,  
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE,  
 
           Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 620, 2012 
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§  Court Below─Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID No. 0006017660 
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Submitted: December 3, 2012 
Decided: December 4, 2012 
 
Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and RIDGELY, Justices 
 
 
 
 
 
 
O R D E R  
 
 
This 4th day of December 2012, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) 
On November 21, 2012, the appellant filed an appeal from the 
Superior Court Commissioner’s interlocutory order, which appears to have 
granted the State an extension of time in which to respond to the appellant’s 
motion for postconviction relief pursuant to Superior Court Criminal Rule 
61.  On that same date, the Clerk of the Court issued a notice, pursuant to 
Supreme Court Rule 29(b), directing the appellant to show cause why this 
 
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appeal should not be dismissed based upon this Court’s lack of jurisdiction 
to entertain an interlocutory appeal in a criminal case.1 
 
(2) 
On December 3, 2012, the appellant filed his response to the 
notice to show cause.  In his response, he states that this Court has 
jurisdiction to entertain an appeal from an order of the Superior Court where 
there was an abuse of discretion, an objection was filed and there has been 
no ruling on the objection.   
 
(3) 
Under the Delaware Constitution, this Court’s jurisdiction 
extends only to the review of a final judgment in a criminal case.2  As a 
result, this Court does not have jurisdiction to review the interlocutory ruling 
of the Superior Court that is the subject of this appeal.3  This appeal must, 
therefore, be dismissed. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Supreme Court 
Rule 29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Myron T. Steele 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice 
 
 
                                                 
1 Del. Const. art. IV, §11(1) (b). 
2 Id. 
3 Gottlieb v. State, 697 A.2d 400, 401-02 (Del. 1997); Rash v. State, 318 A.2d 603, 604 
(Del. 1974).