People v. McDermott
People v. McDermott
Opinion of the Court
This is a motion to recall the remit titur and reinstate the appeal in a cause wherein the judgment was affirmed without examination of the record by reason of the failure of counsel for appellant to file a brief or to appear at the time set for the hearing. The facts of the case are as follows: February 18, 1892, defendant was convicted in the superior court of Ventura County of murder in the second degree; on February 23d he appealed; March 30th he filed the printed transcript of the record at Los Angeles, — five days before the commencement of the April term at Los Angeles and thirty-three days before the commencement of the May term at Sacramento. The cause was not placed upon either the Los Angeles or the Sacramento calen
The question arising upon this state of facts is, whether this court has any power to recall the remittitur and reinstate the appeal; whether, in other words, we have not lost all jurisdiction over the cause by the issuance of the remittitur and its filing in the superior court.
It is the settled law of this state that when a remittitur has been regularly issued and filed, when there has been no violation of law or of our own rules in ordering the remittitur, no mistake of facts and no fraud or imposition practiced by the prevailing party upon the court,, or upon the losing party, our jurisdiction over the cause is at an end, and our judgment final. (Rowland v. Kreyenhagen, 24 Cal. 52, and cases therein cited; People v. Sprague, 57 Cal. 147; Vance v. Pena, 36 Cal.
Upon these grounds, the motion must be denied, and it is so ordered.
Garoutte, J., McFarland, J., De Haven, J., Harrison, J., and Paterson, J., concurred.
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- THE PEOPLE v. WILLIAM McDERMOTT
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- Appeal — Remittitur—Jurisdiction. —When a remittitur has been regularly issued by the supreme court, and filed, and there has been no violation of law or of the rules of this court in ordering the remittitur, and no mistake of facts and no fraud or imposition practiced by the prevailirg party upon the court or upon the losing party, the jurisdiction of the supreme court is at an end, and the judgment final. Id. — Affirmance for Failure of Appellant to Appear—Inadvertence of Counsel — Recall of Remittitur. — Where a judgment has been affirmed because of the failure of the counsel for the appellant to file a brief or appear at the hearing, and a remittitur has been issued to the trial court, the supreme court has no power to recall the remittitur and reinstate the appeal, where the failure of the counsel for appellant to appear was solely due to inadvertence upon their part. Id. — Calendar of Criminal Causes. — Criminal causes are regularly placed on the first calendar of the supreme court made up (whether for Sacramento, Los Angeles, or San Francisco) after the records are filed, regardless of the county in which the case was tried.