People v. Frink

Citations

• 2 Cal. Unrep. 736
• 12 P. 616

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Appeal — Delay in Perfecting—Dismissal.— Under Penal Code of California, section 1246, requiring the clerk with whom the notice of appeal is filed, within ten days thereafter, or within ten days after the settlement of the bill of exceptions, to transmit to the clerk of the appellate court a copy of the record, an appeal will be dismissed on a showing by certificate of the clerk below that four years have elapsed since the taking of the appeal; that defendant has never requested the clerk to make up a transcript; that the bill of exceptions has never been filed, though settled; and that no transcript has been sent to the supreme court.</p>