State v. Baty
| Decision Date | 04 February 1902 |
| Citation | 66 S.W. 428,166 Mo. 561 |
| Parties | THE STATE v. BATY, Appellant |
| Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Osage Circuit Court. -- Hon. R. S. Ryors, Special Judge.
Affirmed.
Frank H. Farris, E. M. Zevely and A. K. Monroe for appellant.
No record of an adjournment appears, from the August term, 1900 to the first Monday in October, 1900. This fact can only appear by record. Milan v. Pemberton, 12 Mo. 394; Dennison v. County of St. Louis, 33 Mo. 168; R. S 1899, secs. 1603, 1604, 1605, 1679. In criminal causes jurisdiction can not be conferred by consent of the accused. City of Kansas v. Knott, 78 Mo. 356. An adjourned term can be held only in the way pointed out by statute. There must be an order of record. R. S. 1899, sec. 1605.
Edward C. Crow, Attorney-General, and Jerry M. Jeffries for the State.
The record shows that this cause was by agreement set for trial on the first Monday of October, 1900. This agreement was made on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1900, during the regular August term of the circuit court of Osage county. The defendant complains that the record does not show the adjournment of the court from the month of August or at any date, to meet on the first Monday of October. His motion for a new trial does not raise this point, and the clerk's certificate to the record would leave the implication that there is a record in his office showing wherein the court adjourned and met in adjourned term on the first Monday in October. Presumptions of regularity in the record of the trial court are always in favor of the trial court. State v. Dawson, 124 Mo. 418; State v. Harkins, 100 Mo. 666. If the court met pursuant to adjournment, there must be a record of adjournment, and had it been called for in the bill of exceptions or in the motion for a new trial, it would probably have been incorporated into this record. Defendant can not complain at this time. State v. Hicks, 92 Mo. 431; State v. Stubbs, 116 Mo. 523; State v Patterson, 124 Mo. 543.
The defendant, on a charge of murder in the first degree, was convicted of the second degree of that crime and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.
The indictment charged that defendant killed George H. Hopkins, by giving him three mortal wounds on the head by striking, hitting and beating him on the head with a rock.
The evidence in this case can not be looked into by reason of the fact that the bill of exceptions has not been properly identified; nothing in the transcript to show where it begins.
There is nothing in the record proper which precedes and identifies what may be supposed to be the bill. And in the concluding entry, after entitling the case, there is this recital made in vacation: "And now comes defendant by his attorney, A. K. Monroe, and files his bill of exceptions as per rule of court."
Under the ruling in Reno v. Fitz Jarrell, 163 Mo. 411, 63 S.W. 808 (), the bill here has not been properly identified.
As to the record proper, no error has been discovered in that.
In reference to the record entries pertaining to this cause, the record shows that this cause was by...
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