People v. Garner

In this appeal, the defendant-appellant filed an abstract of record which included neither the indictment, the judgment appealed from, nor the post-trial motions filed in the case.

Where the abstract fails to show the indictment or the rendition of any judgment, the appeal may be dismissed. The court will not examine the record to reverse the judgment where an insufficient abstract is filed. The rationale of this rule is that the abstract is the pleading of the appellant by which the cause of action established in the transcript of record is presented for review, and it must be sufficient to…