In re Petition To Transfer Appeals

• Decision Date: 12 February 1931
• Citation: 202 Ind. 365,174 N.E. 812
• Parties: In re PETITION TO TRANSFER APPEALS.
• Court: Indiana Supreme Court

202 Ind. 365

174 N.E. 812

In re PETITION TO TRANSFER APPEALS.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Jan. 29, 1931.

Concurring Opinion Feb. 12, 1931.

Petitions to transfer to the Supreme Court the following appeals which were transferred to the Appellate Court under chapter 123, Acts 1929 (petition denied):

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                ¦25486¦13659¦Arnold, Paul, v. State         ¦89 Ind. App. 588, 166 N. E. 446  ¦
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                ¦25365¦13630¦Boston, George, v. State       ¦89 Ind. App. 583, 166 N. E. 448  ¦
                +-----+-----+-------------------------------+---------------------------------¦
                ¦25352¦13633¦Brown, Omar, v. State          ¦(Ind. App.) 167 N. E. 550        ¦
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                ¦25261¦13621¦Busch, Bernard, v. State       ¦(Ind. App.) 165 N. E. 560, 167 N.¦
                ¦     ¦     ¦                               ¦E. 144                           ¦
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                ¦25518¦13900¦Davis, Charles, v. State       ¦90 Ind. App. 714, 168 N. E. 925  ¦
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                ¦25678¦13755¦Doench, Arthur, v. State       ¦90 Ind. App. 609, 168 N. E. 494  ¦
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                ¦25521¦13677¦Duvall, John, v. State         ¦(Ind. App.) 166 N. E. 603        ¦
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                ¦25468¦13706¦Eichoff, Peter, v. State       ¦89 Ind. App. 606, 166 N. E. 445  ¦
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                ¦25408¦13650¦Foster, John, v. State         ¦89 Ind. App. 586, 166 N. E. 447  ¦
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                ¦25729¦13783¦Hall, Helen, v. State          ¦90 Ind. App. 718, 168 N. E. 925  ¦
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                ¦25730¦13784¦Hall, Helen, v. State          ¦90 Ind. App. 548, 168 N. E. 127  ¦
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                ¦25173¦13609¦Hantz, Steve & Thresa v. State ¦(Ind. App.) 166 N. E. 439        ¦
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                ¦25005¦13591¦Holton, Lee, v. State          ¦89 Ind. App. 494, 165 N. E. 921  ¦
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                ¦25373¦13637¦Isabel, Thomas, v. State       ¦90 Ind. App. 131, 166 N. E. 304  ¦
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                ¦25243¦13626¦Jones, William, v. State       ¦89 Ind. App. 564, 166 N. E. 158  ¦
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                ¦25324¦13632¦Kappes, George, v. State       ¦89 Ind. App. 344, 166 N. E. 298  ¦
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                ¦25436¦13644¦Krivokucha, Sam, v. State      ¦89 Ind. App. 468, 165 N. E. 783, ¦
                ¦     ¦     ¦                               ¦166 N. E. 773                    ¦
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                ¦25631¦13676¦Linzie, Paul, v. State         ¦89 Ind. App. 569, 166 N. E. 294  ¦
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                ¦25471¦13663¦McSwain, Commodore, v. State   ¦89 Ind. App. 592, 166 N. E. 444, ¦
                ¦     ¦     ¦                               ¦167 N. E. 568                    ¦
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                ¦     ¦13741¦Michaelree, David, v. State    ¦(Ind. App.) 168 N. E. 27         ¦
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                ¦     ¦13743¦Moore, C. Eugene, v. State     ¦(Ind. App.) 168 N. E. 202        ¦
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                ¦25275¦13627¦Renz, Arthur, and Kazel,       ¦(Ind. App.) 166 N. E. 775        ¦
                ¦     ¦     ¦Albert, v. State               ¦                                 ¦
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                ¦25582¦13667¦Seibert, Edwin, v. State       ¦89 Ind. App. 604, 166 N. E. 256, ¦
                ¦     ¦     ¦                               ¦167 N. E. 542                    ¦
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                ¦25158¦13598¦Sovich, Michael, v. State      ¦(Ind. App.) 167 N. E. 145        ¦
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                ¦25682¦13729¦Stengnach, Ralph, v. State     ¦89 Ind. App. 486, 165 N. E. 919  ¦
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                ¦24951¦13582¦Stevens, James, and Allen,     ¦(Ind. App.) 165 N. E. 781        ¦
                ¦     ¦     ¦Samuel, v. State               ¦                                 ¦
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                ¦25379¦13639¦Thompson, Guy, v. State        ¦89 Ind. App. 547, 166 N. E. 23   ¦
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                ¦25590¦13681¦Thompson, Guy, v. State        ¦89 Ind. App. 555, 167 N. E. 345  ¦
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                ¦25273¦13624¦Thompson, Guy, v. State        ¦89 Ind. App. 541, 167 N. E. 347  ¦
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                ¦25787¦13932¦Worsdorfer, Matthew, v. State  ¦90 Ind. App. 441, 169 N. E. 63   ¦
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                ¦     ¦14065¦Robbins, Thomas, v. State      ¦(Ind. App.) 172 N. E. 504        ¦
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William D. Hardy, of Evansville, for petitioners Arnold, Boston, Doench, Eichoff, Foster, Jones, McSwain, Seibert, Thompson, and Worsdorfer.

George Sands, of South Bend, for petitioners Renz and Kazel.

Herbert S. Barr and Arthur E. Letsinger, both of Crown Point, for petitioners Krivokucha, Stengnach, and Sovich.

Q. Austin East, Regester & Regester, John P. O'Donnell, and Edwin Corr, all of Bloomington, for petitioners Hall and Isabel.

Christian & Waltz and Worth H. Castor, all of Noblesville, for petitioner Moore.

Walter R. Arnold, of South Bend, for petitioner Hantz.

Hugh D. Wickens, of Greensburg, for petitioner Robbins.

William V. Rooker, of Indianapolis, for petitioner Duvall.

Richard L. Ewbank, of Indianapolis, for petitioner Kappes.

Walterhouse & Miller, of Muncie, for petitioner Busch.

Olin R. Holt, of Kokomo, for petitioner Brown.

Anderson & Mayfield, of Indianapolis, for petitioner Linzie.

James L. Bottorff, of Jeffersonville, for petitioner Holton.

Clarence R. Cowger and Glenn R. Slenker, both of Monticello, for petitioner Davis.

J. Frank Adams and Bernard C. Craig, both of Brazil, for petitioner Michaelree.

Hawley O. Burke, of Elkhart, and Owen S. Boling, of Indianapolis, for petitioners Stevens and Allen.

James M. Ogden, Atty. Gen., Samuel R. Artman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and George W. Huffsmith, Merl M. Wall, and V. Ed. Funk, Deputies Atty. Gen. (Harry L. Gause, of Indianapolis, of counsel), for the State.

William H. Thompson, Thomas D. Stevenson, Albert L. Rabb, and Arthur L. Gilliom, all of Indianapolis, amici curiæ.

MARTIN, J.

Section 1, c. 123, Acts 1929, section 2377.1, Burns' Ann. St. Supp. 1929, provides: “That the jurisdiction of all appeals now pending, or hereafter taken, in criminal cases, where the penalty or punishment is not death, or imprisonment in the Indiana state prison, or in the Indiana reformatory, is hereby vested in the appellate court until January 1, 1931, after which time the jurisdiction of all such appeals shall be in the supreme court. All such appeals pending in the appellate court on January 1, 1931, shall be transferred to the supreme court. The decisions of the appellate court in such cases shall be final and conclusive and not subject to an appeal, or petition to transfer to the supreme court.”

The appeals of all the petitioners are from judgments for misdemeanors imposing fines and/or imprisonment for short terms. All except four¹ of these appeals were pending in the Supreme Court on March 12, 1929, the date on which the law quoted above became effective. The appeals, being within the class of cases covered by that law, were thereafter transferred to the Appellate Court, where they have been decided.

Petitioners Failing to Take Action in the Supreme Court within Sixty Days after It Transferred Cases to Appellate Court cannot Thereafter File Motion to Set Aside Order of Transfer.

[1][2][3] Upon the transfer of the appeals to the Appellate Court, none of the appellants, except Robbins, filed any motion to set aside such order. Five of the appellants, Boston, Isabel, Kappes, Stevens, and Allen, argued their cases orally in the Appellate Court, and, after the several judgments were affirmed by that court, eighteen appellants, Arnold, Boston, Brown, Busch, Eichoff, Foster, Hall, Holton, Isabel, Jones, Krivokucha, Linzie, McSwain, Seibert, Stegnach, Stevens, and Allen and Thompson (in No. 25379), filed petitions for rehearing therein. The remaining appellants whose cases had been transferred to the Appellate Court, Davis, Doench, Hantz, Kappes, Sovich, Thompson (in Nos. 25273 and 25590), and Worsdorfer, as well as those last above enumerated, then filed petitions in the Supreme Court asking this court to set aside its order transferring their cases to the Appellate Court and to retransfer and redocket their cases. None of these appellants, except Robbins, as hereinbefore noted, filed such petitions within sixty days after the action of the Supreme Court in transferring their cases to the Appellate Court, but waited until after action was taken by that court which was unfavorable to them-in some instances as long as nine or ten months.

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