Court Opinion

ID: 5147021
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 01:33:52.403738+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:24:49.717419
License: Public Domain

[8] The Court of Criminal Appeals is of the opinion that the judgment and sentence relied on herein, made and entered by the district court of Seminole County, Oklahoma on July 11, 1960 was not part of the original transcript filed in this case, and that the same was folded and placed in the transcript after the time for perfecting the appeal had expired.
[9] The appearance of the certified copy of the judgment and sentence in the transcript, its certification and by whom it was attempted to be filed was all under such dubious circumstances, wholly unsupported by any minute in our clerk's office as to lend little credence to the contentions that are advanced in support of its validity. It appears to have been certified on Sunday, July 31, 1960, and all the evidence is conclusive that no clerk of the court of Seminole County certified the document on that day, or on any Sunday. The "0" in the 1960 on the certification appears from the naked eye to have been altered from a "1", and by aid of a magnifying glass appears definitely to have been so altered.
[10] This circumstance alone casts grave doubt on the validity of the document. Of course, to bring the filing of the judgment and sentence within time (six months for perfecting an appeal, 22 O.S. 1951 § 1054[22-1054] in force at the time) it had to have been certified on July 31, 1960, because July 31, 1961 would clearly be out of time. We are convinced that the judgment was altered to *Page 39 
meet the time requirement for felony, and was too late. But we have been unable to fix any responsibility for the alteration.
[11] The judgment and sentence not having been filed in time allowed by law, the appeal was properly dismissed.
[12] The only other ground asserted on rehearing that might have had merit is that there was fundamental error in the trial court's refusal to sustain the motion of plaintiff in error to quash for lack of venue. It is asserted that the motion was orally made. There is no minute in the transcript to support this contention, and the same appears on the record before us to be wholly without merit.
[13] In any event, the appeal not having been perfected in time the matter is not before us for decision.
[14] Rehearing is accordingly denied.