Court Opinion

ID: 9794658
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Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:09:16.12672+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:18:22.761112
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ON REHEARING
*63Ringo and Walton, Corvallis, for the petition.
ROSSMAN, J.
The defendant moves for a rehearing upon the following ground expressed in his petition:
“The Circuit Court of Benton County, Oregon, had no jurisdiction of the cause between October 11, 1960, and June 21, 1961, which is the period during which Bloor v. Gladden in the Circuit Court of Marion County, Oregon. No. 49158, was on appeal to the Supreme Court of Oregon and the order of the Circuit Court of Benton County, Oregon, in State v. Bloor, No. 18036, dated December 14, 1960, and the order denying a motion to set aside the plea of guilty dated November 30, 1960, are void and are of no effect in that the order setting aside the sentence could not be acted upon by the Circuit Court of Benton County until the appeal in Bloor v. Gladden (Marion County) had been heard and determined.”
In support of the contention just quoted the defendant cites State v. Jackson, 228 Or 371, 365 P2d 294, Which this court decided upon the same day as State v. Bloor. The defendant in the Jackson case was indicted by a grand jury May 18, 1960. On August 18, 1960, Jackson moved to dismiss the indictment on the ground that he had not been brought to trial within a reasonable time as required by ORS 134.120. August 26 his motion to dismiss was heard; it was denied by an order entered September 1. The defendant promptly filed notice of appeal from the order of September 1. September 6 the circuit court tried Jackson upon the charge stated in the indictment and found him guilty. Upon appeal to this court the defendant argued that the judgment of guilt was void *64because the trial was conducted while there was pending in this court the appeal from the order which denied his motion to dismiss the indictment. Since ORS 19.033 (1) prescribes that “When the notice of appeal has been served and filed as provided in ORS 19.023 to 19.029, the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction of 'the cause,” this court, in an opinion written by Mr. Justice Lusk, held that after the notice of appeal had been duly given jurisdiction over the cause was in this court, and the circuit court could not try the case.
It will be noticed that in State v. Jackson, supra, the notice of appeal which we held transferred jurisdiction over that cause from the circuit court to this court was given in that very case itself. The counterpart of that situation is not represented by the case now before us. The defendant, Bloor, invites us to hold that an appeal taken by him from an order entered by the Circuit Court for Marion County in Bloor v. Gladden terminated the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for Benton County over State v. Bloor.
State v. Bloor had its inception when the grand jury of Benton County indicted Bloor upon a charge of rape. December 22, 1958, five days after the return of the indictment, the defendant was arraigned and plead guilty. January 22, 1959, sentence was pronounced and the defendant entered the penitentiary. May 31, 1960, Bloor, as plaintiff, instituted the proceeding entitled Bloor v. Gladden which is mentioned in the above quotation. The defendant in that proceeding is the Warden of the Oregon State Penitentiary. The proceeding was instituted in the Circuit Court for Marion County under the provisions of ORS 138.510 through 138.680 (Post Conviction Hearing Act) for post conviction relief. The relief which Bloor, as plaintiff in that case, sought is fully reported in State *65v. Bloor and Bloor v. Gladden. Upon the trial of Bloor v. Gladden Bloor was not given all of the relief which he sought and thereupon appealed to this court by a notice of appeal filed October 11, 1960. He now claims that that notice of appeal ended the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for Benton County to proceed any further with State v. Bloor; that is, he claims that the jurisdiction of the court was terminated until Bloor v. Gladden was decided.
We now return to the developments in State v. Bloor. The indictment in it was returned by the grand jury of Benton County, as we said, December 17, 1958. December 22 the defendant plead guilty. After he had been sent to the state hospital for the psychiatric examination required by ORS 137.112 and had been returned to Benton County he was sentenced to a term in the Oregon penitentiary. November 30, 1960, the defendant filed a motion in State v. Bloor (Benton County) in Which he sought relief from his plea of guilty and permission to plead not guilty. The grounds of his motion are set forth in State v. Bloor.
It will be remembered that Bloor, as plaintiff in Bloor v. Gladden, gave notice of appeal October 11, 1960, from the judgment entered in that proceeding and that he claims that his notice of appeal brought to a halt the jurisdiction of the circuit court in State v. Bloor. His motion to vacate his plea of guilty in State v. Bloor was not filed until November 30, one month and nineteen days after the notice of appeal was given. It is under those circumstances that Bloor now argues that the Circuit Court for Benton County (in State v. Bloor) “had no jurisdiction of the cause between October 11, 1960, and June 21, 1961, which is the period during which Bloor v. Gladden in the Cir*66cuit Court of Marion County, Oregon, No. 49158, was on appeal to the Supreme Court.”
Before the Circuit Court for Benton County denied the motions to vacate the plea of guilty and permit Bloor to plead not guilty it conducted an extensive hearing. The nature of the hearing is set forth in State v. Bloor. For the purposes of completeness we add that the Circuit Court for Benton County, upon receipt of the order entered by the Circuit Court for Marion County which held that since Bloor was not given a copy of the psychiatrist’s report the sentence pronounced January 22, 1959, was invalid, vacated the sentence and pronounced a new one. However, before it had done so Bloor had appealed Bloor v. Gladden.
The above are the facts. We believe that it is obvious that the notice of appeal given in Bloor v. Gladden did not affect the jurisdiction of the court to proceed with State v. Bloor. The two were different cases. ORS 19.033(1), which is quoted in State v. Jackson, supra, states:
“When the notice of appeal has been served and filed as provided in ORS 19.023 to 19.029, the Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction of the cause, but * * *."
Plainly the words “the cause” mean the cause in Which the notice of appeal was given and not some other cause.
The petition for a rehearing is denied.