Court Opinion

ID: 9861623
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 00:13:58.068487+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:28:42.744924
License: Public Domain

GIVAN, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion's order to the trial court to resen-tence appellant. The majority opinion violates our rule against reweighing the evidence on appeal. The trial court which had appellant and appellant's full record before it made a determination upon abundant facts that appellant should be sentenced as a habitual criminal. The statute cited by the majority gives him that discretion. Not only did the trial court believe the sentence to be reasonable but the Court of Appeals likewise felt that it was reasonable.
*745I also believe there is ample evidence in this record to support the reasonableness of the trial court's decision. When, as in this case, the majority opinion, without benefit of personal contact with appellant or without all of the firsthand knowledge available to the trial court, undertakes to totally reweigh the evidence presented to the trial court and arrives at an opposite conclusion, it violates the standing rules of this Court and perpetrates an injustice upon the trial court.
I would affirm the court in its entirety.