State v. Buffum

Fullerton, J. —

On September 1, 1915, the appellant, W. E. Buffum, was convicted in one of the justice’s courts of Pierce county of the offense of cruelty to animals. On the pronouncement of the judgment of conviction, he orally gave *26notice of appeal from the judgment to the superior court of Pierce county, perfecting the appeal on September 11, 1915, by filing a bond conditioned that he would prosecute the appeal and abide the judgment of the court thereon. Nothing further was done with the appeal by Buffum, and on February 23, 1916, the prosecuting attorney moved to dismiss it on the ground…