Court Opinion

ID: 9864590
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 14:11:18.444306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:18:51.214306
License: Public Domain

THE COURT.
The petition of defendant for a rehearing of this cause in the supreme court is denied.
The opinion of the district court of appeal contains the following passage concerning section 4%, article YI, recently added to the constitution:
“But if there is one proposition in connection therewith of which we entertain no feeling of uncertainty, it is that said amendment was not intended to change, nor has it changed, the very sensible rule prescribed by the constitution and for so many years strictly adhered to in this state, that, in the exercise of their appellate jurisdiction, the appellate courts are restricted to the consideration of questions of law alone, and that, therefore, as before stated, the matter of evidence does not constitute a subject of review by those tribunals, except where there necessarily arises from the evidence or is presented thereby, from its very nature, a question of law.”
This court regards this statement as wholly unnecessary to the decision of the case. The denial of the petition for a rehearing is not to be understood as an indication of approval or disapproval of said statement by the supreme court.