People v. Bergman

The argument advanced on this motion for a new trial that the death of the official court stenographer who recorded the minutes of the trial, has impaired the defendant’s rights on appeal, there being no one now who can transcribe the stenographic notes, cannot be urged by the defendant for the reason that he is not an appellant and, although judgment of conviction was pronounced against him by this court on December 5, 1938, he has not yet appealed from the said judgment and is now precluded by the provisions of section 521 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

The further contention of the…