Court Opinion

ID: 9743023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:24:16.885797+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:38.624860
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Dissenting Opinion
Prentice, J.
I dissent and would deny the petition to transfer, which would result in the same determination of the case upon its merits.
The dicta regarding the modification or overruling of State ex rel. Gash v. Morgan Superior Court, (1972) 258 Ind. 485, 283 N.E.2d 349, is destabilizing. In that case we determined the legislative intent to have been to require a conviction as a condition precedent to a revocation of a suspended sentence when the condition allegedly violated was good behavior. We there held that the intent was clear from the use of the past tense. “* * * The reference, in past tense, to a finding of guilty precludes debate. * * That opinion was handed down May 25, 1972. Hoffa’s revocation hearing was held nearly four years later. It appears reasonable that if we erred in our determination of the legislative intent, the Legislature itself had had ample time in the interim to speak. Although we have said many times that judicial error should be judi*137dally corrected, the wisdom of lawful legislative enactments is not our concern, and we should not overrule our prior interpretations of statutes merely because we have come to question the wisdom of such statutes.
DeBruler, J., concurs.
Note. — Reported at 368 N.E.2d 250.