People v. Anders

On July 27, 1972, the trial court entered an order quashing a search warrant and suppressing the evidence seized thereunder. The State filed a timely notice of appeal on August 25, 1972, but made no application to any court to extend the time for filing the record on appeal pursuant to the terms of Supreme Court Rule 608 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 110A, par. 608) until December 8, 1972, and then in an answer to the defendant’s motion in the trial court to dismiss the appeal.

The defendant’s motion to dismiss the appeal was filed on December 6, 1972, recited that the time to perfect the appeal…