Court Opinion

ID: 9715586
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 06:09:29.953566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:36.146886
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). The only is-
sue before the court was the timeliness of the issuance of the writs of error. However, on reconsideration, we conclude that the statement, “The statutory time limits have an important bearing in a case such as this since the right to appeal a criminal conviction is strictly a statutory right,” may be interpreted to hold that the right to appeal in any criminal case is a statutory right only. Art. I, sec. 21, of the Wisconsin Constitution provides that, “Writs of error shall never be prohibited by law.” This we conclude gives the constitutional right of appeal in criminal cases of a nature that were appealable at the time of adoption of the constitution. Any language appearing in previous cases that appears to hold that all right of appeal is statutory only is withdrawn.
The time, however, within which an appeal may be taken or a writ of error issued is statutory, and the failure to timely act deprives this court of subject matter jurisdiction. (Rehearing denied.)