Court Opinion

ID: 9507413
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:22:36.693173+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:19.460144
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE SHEA,
dissenting:
I do not believe that the evidence was sufficient to permit a jury to find that the offending projectile was found on the National Guard firing range or near the firing range near Deer Lodge. On the other hand, had the trial court admitted the testimony of James Ficklin and Harry Casey that the decedent told them he had found the shell near Deer Lodge, a jury issue was made. Justice Harrison correctly concludes that the evidence should have been admitted. Accordingly, I join Justice Harrison in his dissent that the judgment should be vacated and a new trial ordered — with the direction that the excluded testimony of Ficklin and Casey should be admitted.