Opinion
No. 39071.
April 5, 1954.
1. Criminal law — appeal — motion to strike stenographer's notes — sustained.
Where term of Court at which defendant was convicted adjourned on November 29, 1952, and notice to Court Reporter to transcribe notes was not given until December 13, 1952, more than ten days after adjournment of term of Court, motion to strike notes of testimony taken at trial would be sustained, and since there was no reversible error in indictment, the instructions to the jury, and the judgment and sentence, the cause would be affirmed Sec. 1640, Code 1942.
Headnote as approved by McGehee, C.J.
APPEAL from the circuit court of Lowndes County; JOHN D. GREENE, JR., Judge.
Sims Sims, Columbus, for appellant.
I. The verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence in that the State wholly and completely failed to prove that the defendant was guilty of any culpable negligence, which was necessary in order to convict. Downs v. State, 206 Miss. 831, 41 So.2d 19; Scott v. State, 183 Miss. 788, 185 So. 195; Shows v. State, 175 Miss. 604, 168 So. 862; Sec. 2232, Code 1942.
II. The trial court erred in overruling the motion of the defendant for a directed verdict at the close of the State's testimony and at the conclusion of all of the testimony of the case. Smith v. State, 197 Miss. 802, 20 So.2d 701; 53 Am. Jur., Sec. 358 p. 287.
III. The State wholly and completely failed to show that the defendant willfully, unlawfully and feloniously killed Mrs. Ruby Robertson as charged in the indictment. 26 Am. Jur., Sec. 210 p. 300.
IV. The Court erred in granting each instruction given for the State in the above styled case. McKinney v. State, 196 Miss. 826, 18 So.2d 446.
V. The lower court erred in refusing to sustain defendant's motion for a new trial.
VI. The verdict of the jury is contrary to the great weight of the evidence and contrary to the law applicable to the case.
VII. There are other obvious errors committed against the defendant as shown by the record. Downs v. State, supra.
Joe T. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
I. The motion to strike the stenographic notes from the record should be sustained. Dunn v. Green, 124 Miss. 602, 86 So. 852; McGee v. State, 203 Miss. 609, 35 So.2d 628; Mayflower Mills v. Breeland, 168 Miss. 207, 149 So. 787; Rees v. Rees, 188 Miss. 256, 193 So. 334; Richmond v. Enochs, 109 Miss. 14, 67 So. 649; Sec. 725, Code 1930; Secs. 1410, 1640, Code 1942; Sec. 1 Chap. 145, Laws 1920; Chap. 236, Laws 1936.
On December 16, 1953, the appellant, Tommy Booker, filed an assignment of error in the above styled cause and a brief in support thereof on January 14, 1954. But the appellee, State of Mississippi, on January 27, 1954, filed its motion to strike the transcript of the stenographic notes of the testimony taken on the trial of the cause on the ground that the term of court, at which the appellant was convicted of manslaughter because of alleged culpable negligence in connection with an auto mobile collision on the highway and sentenced to serve a term of eight years in the penitentiary, adjourned on November 29, 1952, and the notice to the court reporter to transcribe her notes was not given until December 13, 1952, more than ten days after the adjournment of the term of the court.
(Hn 1) We have no alternative except to sustain the motion of the State to strike the transcript of the stenographic notes of the testimony taken at the trial, under the authority of Section 1640, Code of 1942, and Dunn v. Green, 124 Miss. 602, 86 So. 852; Mayflower Mills v. Breeland, 168 Miss. 207, 149 So. 787; McGehee v. State, 35 So.2d 628, 203 Miss. 609; Rees v. Rees, 188 Miss. 256, 193 So. 334; Richmond v. Enochs, 109 Miss. 14, 67 So. 649; and Mrs. Louise Ivy and Henry Benson Ivy. v. S. Robertson, et al., 220 Miss. 364, 70 So.2d 862, on which decision was rendered March 15, 1954.
We have carefully examined the indictment, the instructions to the jury, and the judgment and sentence of the trial court, and we are unable to find that any reversible error was committed, since the testimony taken at the trial is not to be considered as any part of the record under the statute and decisions hereinbefore cited.
The motion to strike the transcript of the testimony taken at the trial is therefore sustained and the judgment appealed from is affirmed.
Affirmed.
Kyle, Arrington, Ethridge and Gillespie, JJ., concur.