State v. Worl

TITUS, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a Hickory County jury of having possessed firearms while intoxicated, but could not agree upon punishment. § 564.610. 1 After defendant’s timely motion for a new trial was argued and overruled, the trial court on December 19, 1973, per Rules 27.03 and 27.09, granted allocution, rendered judgment and pronounced a sentence of imprisonment of 3 years.

On the eighth day after judgment, i. e., December 27, 1973, the clerk of the trial court received from defendant a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court. Under date of March 29, 1974, the clerk wrote…