State v. Held

Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Franklin County of robbery in the first degree, sentenced to thirty-five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary and has appealed. We have in fact only the record proper before us for review, because:

[1] Appellant has attempted to perfect and present his appeal by filing here what he terms an "abstract of the record," as in a civil case. Appeals in criminal cases are not perfected in that way, but by filing in the appellate court a complete transcript of the record. [See Sec. 3756, R.S. 1929, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 3292, Sec. 3757, R.S. 1929, Mo.…