Opinion
No. 27,747.
Filed January 14, 1943. Rehearing denied January 26, 1943.
MANDAMUS — Grounds — Compelling Trial Court to Furnish Record for Appeal from Ruling on Motion Filed Seven Years After Conviction — Lack of Jurisdiction of Trial Court. — Where a person was convicted of crime, and seven years thereafter filed, in the court where he was tried, a motion to modify the judgment, which was overruled, a writ of mandate would not be issued to require the trial court to furnish at public expense a transcript of the entire record for an appeal, since the trial court was without jurisdiction to modify the judgment and the time for appeal had long expired and hence an attempted appeal would be futile.
Original action by the State of Indiana, on the relation of Chester Taylor, against Robert F. Reeves, Special Judge of the Circuit Court of Hancock County, Indiana, for a writ of mandate to compel respondent to furnish at public expense a transcript of the entire record of a criminal action for an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Petition denied.
Chester Taylor, pro se.
Relator in 1935 was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment as an habitual criminal. On the eighth day of February, 1942, he filed in the court wherein he was tried, under the title number of the same cause, a motion to modify the judgment which was overruled. He now asks us to mandate the trial court to furnish at public expense a transcript of the entire record of the cause for an appeal to this court. The trial court was without jurisdiction to modify the judgment and the time for appeal therefrom has long since expired. An attempted appeal would be futile. The petition for mandate is denied.
NOTE. — Reported in 46 N.E.2d 199.