Murry v. State

ROONEY, Justice.

Appellant appealed from a judgment and sentence entered on a jury verdict of guilty to the crime of first degree murder. In addition to briefing and arguing the merits of the case, we requested the parties to brief and argue the issue as to whether or not the appeal should be dismissed on the ground that the notice of appeal was not timely filed.

Inasmuch as we find the notice of appeal to have not been timely filed, an order of dismissal of the appeal is issued contemporaneously with this opinion.

The pertinent chronology is as follows:

November 18, 1980-Verdict of guilty…