Court Opinion

ID: 9536796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:07:09.936763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:55:19.782089
License: Public Domain

BRETT, Presiding Judge
(concurring):
I concur with Judge Nix in the rationale he applied in reaching his conclusion in this case. While it is admitted that ordinarily a decision holding a later statute repeals an earlier one by implication may not be the most desirable situation; but nonetheless, time and circumstances change all things. There can be no doubt concerning what the intention of the legislature was in 1961 when 47 O.S.A. § 11-903 was passed, because at that time the automobile had already commenced to change the circumstances of life. Whereas in 1910, the onslaught of automobiles could not even be conceived.
At the same time, numerous means of committing homicide can be visualized under the provisions of Title 21, O.S.A. § 716, without the automobile even entering the picture. Hence, it is only reasonable to consider that the legislature intended to lift out of that section of the statutes the provisions pertaining to automobiles, as provided for in the later statute, 47, O.S.A. § 11-903. Therefore, the earlier section of the statute must be considered repealed, but only as to the automobile circumstances set forth in 47 O.S.A. § 11-903.