Title: State v. Flying Hawk
Citation: 227 Neb. 878, 420 N.W.2d 323
Docket Number: 556
State: Nebraska
Issuer: Nebraska Supreme Court
Date: March 18, 1988

420 N.W.2d 323 (1988) 227 Neb. 878 STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. Robert Michael FLYING HAWK, Appellant. No. 87-556. Supreme Court of Nebraska. March 18, 1988. James R. Wefso, Rushville, for appellant. Robert M. Spire, Atty. Gen., Lincoln, and Marie C. Pawol, Omaha, for appellee. HASTINGS, C.J., and BOSLAUGH, WHITE, CAPORALE, SHANAHAN, GRANT, and FAHRNBRUCH, JJ. CAPORALE, Justice. Defendant, Robert Michael Flying Hawk, pled guilty to a charge of attempted burglary, a violation of Neb.Rev.Stat. §§ 28-201 and 28-507 (Reissue 1985), was so adjudged, and was thereafter sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 30 months and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $901.10. More than 30 days later, he, without having previously filed a motion for new trial, filed a notice of appeal to this court. Defendant thereafter filed in the district court a motion seeking reconsideration of his sentence. Lacking jurisdiction, we dismiss. Defendant entered his plea on March 26, 1987. On May 5, 1987, the district court sentenced defendant as aforesaid. On June 8, defendant filed a notice of appeal to this court. On August 10, 1987, defendant filed in the district court a motion asking that court to reconsider the sentence it had imposed. The motion was denied on August 25. The record contains no notice of appeal from that order of denial, and defendant *324 confesses that no such notice has been filed. Neb.Rev.Stat. § 25-1912 (Cum.Supp. 1986) provides in relevant part as follows: Neb.Rev.Stat. § 29-2306 (Reissue 1985) deals with waiver of docket fees for cause, and Neb.Rev.Stat. § 48-641 (Reissue 1984) deals with appeals under this state's employment security law; neither provision need concern us here. Defendant urges that "the 30 day Notice of Appeal requirement does not apply to the Notice of Appeal of Sentence in his case because he eventually filed a Motion to Reconsider Sentence within 120 days of his original sentencing," pursuant to the provisions of Neb.Rev.Stat. § 29-2308.01 (Cum.Supp.1986). Reply brief for Appellant at 6. As noted in State v. Spotted Elk, 227 Neb. 869, 875-76, ___ N.W.2d ___, ___ (1988): As noted previously in this opinion, defendant was sentenced on May 5, 1987; it is from that judgment that defendant attempted to appeal. State v. Spotted Elk, supra; In re Interest of Wolkow, 206 Neb. 512, 293 N.W.2d 851 (1980). The notice of appeal filed June 8, 1987, is beyond the 30-day limit found in § 25-1912(1). It is mandatory and jurisdictional that the notice of appeal be filed within the time required by statute; where a notice of appeal is not filed within 30 days from the entry of the final order appealed from, as required by § 25-1912(1), this court obtains no jurisdiction to hear the appeal, and the appeal must be dismissed. In re Interest of C.M. H. and M.S.H., 227 Neb. p. 446, 418 N.W.2d 226 (1988); State v. Reed, 226 Neb. 575, 412 N.W.2d 848 (1987). See, also, State v. Spotted Elk, supra. Accordingly, this purported appeal must be, and hereby is, dismissed. APPEAL DISMISSED.