Court Opinion

ID: 9583552
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:39:44.613612+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:04.174279
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LANE, Judge,
concurring in result.
I do not believe that the majority’s characterization of Appellant’s nod of the head as an adoptive admission is either' correct or necessary. The majority finds that the nod was a non verbal action. However, if you accept the definition of the word “verbal” as being “of, relating to, or associated with *128words”1 then a nod of the head becomes a verbal action since it is accepted in our society as an action conveying agreement or the same meaning as the word “yes”. Therefore, Appellant gave a positive response to the question asked, and it is up to the jury to determine the meaning of the answer.

. Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary, Riverside Press, 1984, p. 1281.