Title: Croll v. State
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 372, 2011
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: August 11, 2011

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
PATRICK F. CROLL,  
 
Defendant Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
STATE OF DELAWARE,  
 
          Plaintiff Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 372, 2011 
§ 
§ 
§  Court Below─Superior Court 
§  of the State of Delaware 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  Cr. ID Nos. 0801001836 
§                     0803007023 
§ 
§ 
 
Submitted: August 2, 2011 
Decided: August 11, 2011 
 
Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and RIDGELY, Justices 
 
 
 
 
 
 
O R D E R  
 
 
This 11th day of August 2011, it appears to the Court that: 
 
(1) 
On July 26, 2011, the Court received the appellant’s notice of 
appeal from the Superior Court’s July 13, 2011 interlocutory order denying 
his motion for transcripts at State expense.  On July 26, 2011, the Clerk 
issued a notice pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 29(b) directing the appellant 
to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed based upon this 
Court’s lack of jurisdiction to entertain an interlocutory appeal in a criminal 
matter. 
 
(2) 
On August 2, 2011, the appellant filed a response to the notice 
to show cause.  In the response, the appellant states that this Court does have 
 
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jurisdiction to entertain the appeal because it is from a final order of the 
Superior Court.   
 
(3) 
Under the Delaware Constitution, only a final order may be 
reviewed by this Court in a criminal case.1  The Superior Court’s order 
denying the appellant’s motion for transcripts at State expense is not a final 
order because it does not resolve all of the issues in the appellant’s criminal 
case and, thus, is not intended to be the Superior Court’s “final act” in that 
case.2  As such, the appellant’s notice of appeal fails to invoke the 
jurisdiction of this Court. 
 
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 J.I. Kislak Mortgage Corp. v. William Matthews, Builder, Inc., 303 A.2d 648, 650 (Del. 
1973).