Court Opinion

ID: 9517478
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:18:14.742051+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:43:55.533425
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(specially concurring).
Although I agree that this Court does not have jurisdiction to hear this appeal, I also agree with the majority that there are serious problems with the action of the trial court taken in this case; namely, that the trial court, in effect, entered a finding of guilty on simple assault. A trial court cannot deprive an accused of a jury trial and substitute itself as a finder of fact. See United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co., 430 U.S. 564, 572-73, 97 S.Ct. 1349, 1355, 51 L.Ed.2d 642, 652 (1977).