Opinion
No. A-7090.
Opinion Filed March 15, 1930.
Appeal and Error — Appeal Dismissed as Moot Where New Trial is Granted for Newly Discovered Evidence. Where, subsequent to the filing of an appeal in this court and within the time and under the provisions of the seventh subdivision of section 2754 and section 2755, Comp. Stat. 1921, a defendant so convicted files his application with the trial court for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence, and said application is granted, the appeal in this court becomes moot, and will be dismissed.
Appeal from District Court, Canadian County; Wyley Jones, Judge.
Frank Lemmons was convicted of robbery, and he appeals. Appeal dismissed.
A.T. Earley, Caleb Choate, and J.T. Michael, for plaintiff in error.
J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., for the State.
The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Canadian county on a charge of robbery with firearms, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of twenty years.
The appeal was lodged in this court on July 2, 1928. Subsequent to the filing of the appeal in this court, and within the time provided by the seventh subdivision of section 2754, and by section 2755, Comp. Stat. 1921, the defendant filed his application for a new trial in the district court, which application was granted, and said case is now pending in that court. The appeal in this case has become moot, and is dismissed.
DAVENPORT and CHAPPELL, JJ., concur.