State v. Peek

BRITT, Judge.

The judgment appealed from was entered on 11 January-1974 but the record on appeal was not docketed in this court until 10 May 1974. Rule 5 of the Rules of Practice in the Court of Appeals of North Carolina requires that the record on appeal be docketed within 90 days after the date of the judgment appealed from, unless the trial tribunal, for good cause, extends the time for docketing for not more than 60 days.

Very soon after this court became operational, it held that an order of the trial tribunal extending the time to serve the case on appeal does not have the effect of…