Scope of Rules

(a) All appeals, reviews pursuant to Rule 12, certifications under Rules 11 or 12, and petitions for writ of review pursuant to Rule 13 shall be governed by these rules. Where the term “appellate court” is used in these rules, it refers to either the district court or the Supreme Court as circumstances make appropriate. The term “trial court” refers to either a district court, the chancery court, a circuit court, or a municipal court. (b) These rules shall supersede any conflicting statutes, rules or regulations addressing procedural matters. History: Amended May 4, 2001, effective September 1, 2001amended December 11, 2024, effective March 1, 2025; amended December 2, 2002, effective January 6, 2003; amended April 6, 2015, effective July 1, 2015; amended October 12, 2021, effective January 1, 2022. Comment. — See White v. Fisher, 689 P.2d 102, 106-07 (Wyo. 1984). Source. — Former Rule 72(e), W.R.C.P.; Rule 38, W.R. Cr. P. (Cited in Cisneros v. City of Casper, 479 P.2d 198 (Wyo. 1971); Jackson v. State, 547 P.2d 1203 (1976)). Effect of following appellate rules. — An individual is not deprived of his constitutional rights to an appeal in a criminal case so long as the rules governing appellate procedure are followed. State v. Berger, 600 P.2d 708, 1979 Wyo. LEXIS 454 (Wyo. 1979). Effect of not following appellate rules. — Summary judgment was properly entered in favor of a creditor in debt collection proceedings because the debtor, who appeared pro se on appeal, violated numerous rules of appellate procedure; thus, the appeal was subject to sum- mary affirmance pursuant to this rule. Snyder v. Direct Merchs. CR, 2006 WY 86, 138 P.3d 675, 2006 Wyo. LEXIS 147 (Wyo. 2006). Delay in appeal bars review. — Where the appellant-defendant pled guilty to a charge of grand larceny and no appeal was then taken, but later a judgment and sentence was entered by the district court revoking probation and activating the original sentence, and on appeal defendant asserts that the trial judge erred in the prior guilty plea proceeding in failing to ascertain a factual basis for such a plea, the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction to consider the judgment and sentence originally entered by the district court. Murphy v. State, 592 P.2d 1159, 1979 Wyo. LEXIS 395 (Wyo. 1979). Law reviews. — For case note, “Criminal Procedure — The Elimination of Dismissals for Lack of Prosecution from Wyoming Intermedi- ate Appeals. Wood v. City of Casper, 660 P.2d 1163 (Wyo. 1983),” see XIX Land & Water L. Rev. 301 (1984). Tyler J. Garrett, Anatomy of a Wyoming Appeal: A Practitioner’s Guide for Civil Cases, 16 Wyo. L. Rev. 139 (2016).