Court Opinion

ID: 9853526
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:49:51.135086+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:50.662442
License: Public Domain

ELLETT, Chief Justice
(concurring with reservations).
The opinion as written is well done and I concur, but would hold that an engrossed bill should be given validity, absent a showing of falsification, surreptitious expungement, alteration, etc., if I could persuade this Court to that view. Not being able to so convince my brethren to that position, I am satisfied that the opinion as written will serve next best.
The provisions of Article VI, sec. 22 of our Constitution, insofar as it requires an entry in the journal, was intended to allow the voters to know how each legislator voted on all bills. It contains a record which a legislator is not permitted to deny when he seeks re-election.