Court Opinion

ID: 9680800
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:38:51.469334+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:30.434404
License: Public Domain

DOUGLAS, Judge,
concurring.
The appellant’s motion for rehearing should be overruled for the reasons stated in the opinion on original submission. Usually, in a case such as this, expert witnesses will not testify that an injury was caused by any particular means beyond a reasonable doubt. The test for the admission of such testimony set out in the original opinion should be all that is required for the proof of causation. The statement in the opinion on rehearing that the cause of the injury was proved beyond a reasonable doubt does not add anything to the opinion evidence of the experts. The proof is not elevated by such a statement to any higher degree than the test for its admission.
The State proved the entire case beyond a reasonable doubt including opinion evidence by the cause of injury to a reasonable medical probability.