Section 547.070

Title XXXVII CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Chapter 547

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   

  547.070.  Appeals — when granted. — In all cases of final judgment rendered upon any indictment or information, an appeal to the proper appellate court shall be allowed to the defendant, provided, defendant or his attorney of record shall during the term at which the judgment is rendered file his written application for such appeal.

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(RSMo 1939 § 4130)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 3740; 1919 § 4086; 1909 § 5292

(1951) Where no appeal was applied for within the time provided by this section and no writ of error was applied for or issued within time fixed by supreme court rule 1.34, the supreme court has no jurisdiction of the appeal. State v. Smith (Mo.), 242 S.W.2d 515.

(1952) Where record showed motion for new trial filed and overruled but failed to show allocution, sentence and judgment, appeal was premature and cause must be remanded.  State v. Bledsoe (Mo.), 249 S.W.2d 457; (1952) State v. Skaggs (Mo.), 248 S.W.2d 635.

(1957) Notice of appeal procedure specified by supreme court rule 28.03 has superseded this statute. State v. Amsden (Mo.), 299 S.W.2d 498.

(1984) A suspended imposition of sentence is not a final judgment for purposes of appeal. State v. Lynch (Mo. banc), 679 S.W.2d 858.

(1994) Defendant may not appeal from conviction in which imposition of sentence was suspended, because suspended imposition of sentence is not final appealable judgment as required by section.  State v. Detherage, 869 S.W.2d 293 (Mo. App. E.D.).