State v. Onstot

HARRIS, Justice.

We dismiss as tardy the State’s appeal from a trial court ruling which back dated the effective date of an order of driver’s license revocation.

Because Thomas Edwin Onstot (defendant) gathered a long record of traffic offenses the State brought this action under the habitual offender provision of the motor vehicle code. §§ 321.555 through 321.562, The Code. 1

On May 31, 1977 the trial court filed its ruling which provided in part:

“ * * * [T]he court * * * finds that the defendant herein has had his license suspended for the approximate last one year, and;

“It is therefore…