State v. Cantrell
| Decision Date | 13 June 1966 |
| Docket Number | No. 1,No. 51633,51633,1 |
| Citation | 403 S.W.2d 647 |
| Parties | STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Albert Lonzo CANTRELL, Appellant |
| Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, James M. Byrne, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Louis, for respondent.
Robert G. Duncan, Pierce, Duncan, Beitling & Shute, Kansas City, for appellant.
HOUSER, Commissioner.
Albert Lonzo Cantrell appeals from a judgment of conviction of the crime of stealing money in an amount in excess of $100. §§ 560.156(2); 560.161(2), V.A.M.S. He was sentenced as an habitual offender to ten years confinement in an institution to be designated by the department of corrections. Appellant was represented in the circuit court by counsel who filed a motion for new trial in his behalf. His counsel filed a brief and orally argued the case on appeal. The state contends that no assignment of error in appellant's motion for new trial has been preserved for review for the reason that the motion was not filed in time, and that a paper writing purporting to be a nunc pro tunc order bridging the time gap is a nullity and in any event is not before this Court.
The transcript on appeal shows that the verdict of guilty was returned on June 29, 1965; that defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal or for a new trial was filed on July 13, 1965; that on that same date defendant was granted allocution, judgment was entered and sentence was pronounced in accordance with the verdict, and defendant took an appeal.
On March 14, 1966 the clerk of the Supreme Court received a letter from defendant's attorney enclosing a copy of a 'Nunc Pro Tunc Order' which the attorney recited that he received on March 16 (?) from the circuit judge, 'showing that the Court did grant (him) 15 days to file a motion for new trial but that that order was through mistake not shown in the Court minutes.' The 'Nunc Pro Tunc Order,' certified by the clerk of the circuit court in which defendant was convicted, follows:
'The defendant herein having been convicted by verdict of the jury on June 29, 1965, and the Court having allowed defendant fifteen (15) days to file motion for a new trial but said order not appearing in the record other than the entry, cause continued to July 13, 1965, and it having been the understanding of the parties and the intention of the Court that defendant do and have fifteen (15) days in which to file motion for new trial,
'IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED nunc pro tunc that defendant have fifteen (15) days from June 29, 1965 in which to file motion for new trial, said order being entered for the purpose of correcting the record.'
No motion was filed here to make this order a part of the transcript and no supplemental transcript on appeal was ordered or prepared pursuant to the provisions of Civil Rule 82.12(c), V.A.M.R., which is applicable to criminal cases. Criminal Rule 28.18, V.A.M.R. The transcript reveals no record in the circuit court of a motion to amend the record or of the filing of any proceeding to obtain the nunc pro tunc order, or a notice to the state of the intention of appellant to procure an amendment nunc pro tunc, or of a hearing held thereon or that any evidence, or paper writing, notation or memorandum existed or was considered by the circuit court.
Criminal Rule 27.20(a), V.A.M.R., which requires that a motion for new trial in a criminal case be filed within ten days after the return of the verdict, is mandatory. State v. Hooper, Mo.Sup., 364 S.W.2d 542. On application defendant may be granted an extension of time for an additional period of thirty days, but there is no record in this transcript of any application therefor or of any court order allowing such an extension. Appellant seeks to circumvent this omission by the mere filing of the certified copy of the so-called 'Nunc Pro Tunc Order' with the clerk of this Court. This does not constitute a compliance with Civil Rule 82.12(c), supra, and the purported order nunc pro tunc is a nullity. Not being a part of the transcript on appeal the 'Nunc Pro Tunc Order' and the letter accompanying it, lodged with the Court since the filing of the transcript, 'are not a part of any authenticated record, * * * are not properly here,' State v. Eno, Mo.Sup., 313 S.W.2d 720, 723(2), and cases cited, and may not be officially considered. Accordingly, we do not take notice of the recitals therein that the court allowed defendant fifteen days to file his motion for a new trial, or that the circuit court record recites that the cause was continued until July 13, 1965, or that it was the understanding and intention of court and counsel that the additional time be allowed. If authority be needed for the ruling that the so-called nunc pro tunc order is a nullity it is to be found in State v. Hooper, Mo.Sup., 364 S.W.2d 542, where in a similar situation this Court held that the limitation of Criminal Rule 27.20 cannot be evaded by the mere expedient of a nunc pro tunc entry which, as in this case, did not appear to have been made after a hearing pursuant to notice and an opportunity for the opposite party to be heard, or to have been based upon any record, minute, or entry. Consequently, we must rule that none of the six points made in appellant's brief has been preserved for appellate review.
We do, however, have jurisdiction of the appeal and are obliged to review the sufficiency of the information, verdict, judgment and sentence and render judgment as to those matters upon the record. Criminal Rule 28.02, V.A.M.R.
In addition to the allegation that defendant committed and was convicted of previous offenses, the first amended information charged that 'on or about the 12th day of November, 1964, at and in the County of Adair and State of Missouri, the defendant, Albert Lonzo Cantrell did then and there willfully and unlawfully, and feloniously steal, take and carry away in excess of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, lawful money of the United States, from the premises of Baiotto and Gasperi, Inc., of Novinger, Missouri, without the permission or consent of the said owners thereof, and with the intent to permanently deprive the owners of the use and possession thereof and to convert the same to his own use.'
The first amended information is fatally defective because it does not aver the ownership of the property. State v. Ellis, 119 Mo. 437, 24 S.W. 1017; State v. Moore, Mo.App., 272 S.W. 710(2). 1 The...
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