Court Opinion

ID: 6837572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 20:08:51.48594+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:04:44.950234
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OTIS, District Judge.
Plaintiff in error on February 5, 1926, was charged in an indictment with the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor in a place within the limits of what formerly was the Indian Territory. She was tried on that charge October 13,1926, and, having been found guilty, on October 14, 1926, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment and a fine of $100. Writ of error was allowed October 23, 1926. A transcript of the record was certified by the clerk of the District Court December 2, 1926. The case.was set for argument before this court May 16, 1927, at. Kansas City, Mo.
No briefs having been1 filed by the plaintiff in error or having been served on defendant in error, defendant in error on May 16, 1927, presented its motion to dismiss the writ of error; a copy of the motion and notice that it would be presented having theretofore been duly served on plaintiff in error. The motion prayed dismissal for failure to file and serve briefs as required by rule 24. To this motion plaintiff in error filed a response, setting up therein no sufficient excuse for her failure to comply with the rule, but asking a continuance, and suggesting that, if a continuance were granted, a brief would be filed, and that in that brief she would urge that the trial court erred in that part of his charge in which he commented on the evidence in the case.
We have examined carefully the record and have considered the assignment of errors, and especially the complaint urged in the response to the motion to dismiss. There is no error in the record. The ease might well be affirmed, and so disposed of. But the better disposition is to sustain the motion to dismiss the writ of error. Even if there had been error, that would still be the better disposition. None can complain of a strict and impartial enforcement of just rules governing the review of cases, and, on the other *82hand, none can justify such a relaxation of a rule as makes it dead letter.
The motion is sustained, and the writ of error dismissed.