State v. Brown

BOUTALL, Judge.

ON OUR OWN MOTION TO DISMISS

This matter concerns an appeal from the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Jefferson. Shortly after the appeal was filed, we noticed an apparent lack of jurisdiction of this Court because: 1.) There was no signed judgment in the record; and 2.) The proceeding was a criminal prosecution against an adult. As a consequence we issued a rule to show cause to the parties in order to ascertain our jurisdiction.

There has now been filed into the record what purports to be the judgment rendered, signed on August 8, 1977. Our examination of that judgment…