Summary
holding that because this court has no jurisdiction for appellate review of a district court judgment entered on appeal from municipal court, an aggrieved party's only remedy would be a timely petition for writ of certiorari
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No. 8061
March 31, 1976
Appeal from the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County; Joseph S. Pavlikowski, J.
Carl E. Lovell, Jr., City Attorney, and John J. Graves, Jr., Deputy City Attorney, Las Vegas, for Appellant.
Boyd Freedman, Las Vegas, for Respondent.
OPINION
Aden I. Carver was convicted of a misdemeanor in a Las Vegas Municipal Court. A timely appeal to a District Court resulted in the conviction being reversed and the misdemeanor complaint being dismissed. The City of Las Vegas then caused this appeal to be lodged.
We do not reach the merit, if any, of the appeal. We have no jurisdiction for appellate review of a district court judgment, which has been entered on an appeal from a municipal court. Nev. Const. art. VI, § 6. See The City of Reno v. Dixon, 42 Nev. 67, 172 P. 367 (1918), and cases cited therein. Appellant's remedy, if any, would have been to timely petition for certiorari, under NRS 34.020(3). City of Reno v. District Court, 83 Nev. 201, 427 P.2d 4 (1967). Accordingly, we
ORDER this appeal dismissed.