State v. Lovell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and appeals, presenting two specifications of error for our review.

*8The first of these is that the trial court pronounced judgment and sentence on defendant without first ruling on his motion for a new trial. The assumption that such an incident happened is based on nothing more tangible than that in the arrangement of the papers attached to and filed with the notice of appeal the journal entry of judgment and sentence precedes the journal entry which records the trial court’s ruling…