Shaw
People v. Shaw
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Plummer, J.
The appellant was convicted of the crime of manslaughter and also of the offense of failing to stop and render assistance, after having run down and killed a boy riding on a bicycle, on one of the public highways of the county of Sacramento, state of California, on or about the ninth day of January, 1926. His appeal is prosecuted from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
On the twenty-fifth day of March, 1926, after an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial had been made and entered, the defendant filed a notice of appeal, which, omitting the title, is in the following words and figures:
On the same day appellant filed his application for a transcript of the phonographic reporter's notes, which application, omitting the title, is in the following words and figures:
The transcript was prepared and certified to this court, covering some 541 pages, and we are now asked to examine said transcript and determine therefrom whether or not the evidence was sufficient to justify the verdict in finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter. This, however, would be of no avail to the appellant because we have, for reasons herein about to be stated, no jurisdiction to…