State v. Mason

The Defendant, Kalvin B. Mason, appeals from judgments of convictions for selling or possessing motor vehicles with no identification marks (29 M.R.S.A. § 2185) entered March 6, 1980, in Superior Court in Oxford County upon the purported transfer to that court of two complaints filed against him in District Court.

We sustain the appeal upon the ground that the Superior Court had no jurisdiction.

In State v. Currier, Me., 409 A.2d 241, 243 (1979), we spelled out the several steps required under the statute and our rule to transfer a case from District Court: (1) The defendant who appears without…