State v. Wade

Defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Boone county, of murder in 'the second degree, for that, as it was charged in the information, he had stabbed and-killed one James Franklin White. The appeal of defendant herein was granted by the circuit court on the 27th day of October, 1911, but such appeal was not perfected by filing in this court a transcript of the record till April 1, 1913, as is clearly disclosed by the file-mark of the clerk of this court.

The State has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal of defendant for the reason that it was not perfected within one year after the…