Lowery v. McDonough

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that court lacks jurisdiction to vacate judgment of conviction after defendant begins serving sentence
• recognizing that criminal court’s common-law jurisdiction to vacate judgment during ‘‘ ‘term’ ’’ in which it had been rendered ‘‘no longer has vitality in this state’’
• “the court loses jurisdiction over the case when the defendant is committed to the custody of the commissioner of correction and begins serving the sentence”
• “[i]t is axiomatic that, where the statutory language is clear and unambiguous, construction of the statute by reference to its history and purpose is unnecessary”
• trial court lacks jurisdiction to grant motion for judgment of acquittal “when the defendant is committed to the custody of the commissioner of correction and begins serving the sentence”
• trial court lacks jurisdiction to grant motion for judgment of acquittal ‘‘when the defendant is committed to the custody of the commissioner of correction and begins serving the sentence’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).