Legal Opinion
Hines v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 7, 1968No. 4328, 4329PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MYERS, Associate Judge.
Appellant was convicted of threatening to do bodily harm1 and of assault.2 Notices of appeal from the judgments upon those convictions were not filed until after the ten-day period for the filing of such notice had expired.3 We granted the Government’s motion to dismiss the appeals because the failure to file timely notice deprives this court of jurisdiction over a direct appeal. Burke v. Loughrin, D.C. Mun.App., 91 A.2d 564 (1952); Beach v. District of Columbia, D.C.Mun.App., 44 A.2d 926, 927 (1945).4 Appellant then filed a motion with the trial court “to vacate the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- W. C. Dodd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- Richard J. Dillane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- Joshua Lee Calland v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1963
- Calvin Fennell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Evitts v. LuceySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Watson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
- Horace Edward Williams v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Williams v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Grooms v. StateSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1982
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