City of Walters v. Ewing

1929 OK CR 146, 276 P. 700, 42 Okla. Crim. 381, 1929 Okla. Crim. App. LEXIS 405

• Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
• Decided: April 20, 1929
• Docket: No. A-6538.
• Status: Published

Opinion

EDWARDS, P. J.

The city attorney filed with the police judge a complaint against J. D. Ewing charging the violation of a city ordinance. He was convicted in the police court and sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and costs. From this conviction he appealed to the county court, and a motion was there filed to dismiss the proceeding, challenging the validity of the ordinance under which the conviction was had, and a stipulation of facts was entered into a.nd evidence taken, and the court then made findings of facts and conclusions of law, and in effect rendered judgment that the business of defendant did not come within the ordinance, and sustained the motion to dismiss the prosecution. From this judgment the city has prosecuted this appeal.

The defendant has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal here for the reason that a municipality in such case does not have the right of appeal. It is well settled that the right of the state to appeal on questions reserved by the representatives of the state in a trial court is based on section 2807, Comp. Stat. 1921, but this statute does not confer the same fight on municipalities either directly or by implication, and where a municipality attempts to appeal, the appeal will upon proper motion be dismissed. Oklahoma City v. Tucker, 11 Okla. Cr. 266, 145 P. 757, Ann. Cas. 1917D, 984; Incorporated Town of Ida bel v. Dooley, 23 Okla. Cr. 278, 214 P. 735; City of Ada v. Rupprecht, 29 Okla. Cr. 227, 233 P. 238.

The attempted appeal is dismissed.

DAVENPORT and CHAPPELL, JL, concur.