Court Opinion

ID: 9766231
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:37:43.731079+00
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Opinion on the Petition to Rehear
Me. Special Justice Bozeman.
The Respondents have filed a Petition to Rehear in this cause insisting that the finding of the Court of Criminal Appeals that the Defendants were not guilty of receiving stolen property under the evidence introduced on the trial of the case was an acquittal of these two Defendants, therefore, being an acquittal, is not subject to review by this Court.
The same question was raised on Respondent’s Motion to Strike the Petition for the Writ of Certiorari filed by the State. We answered that contention in our Original *389Opinion holding. * * * “that there is no acquittal when the Criminal Court of Appeals reverses the Trial Court.”
We can find nothing in the Petition to Rehear to change our reasoning as stated in the Original Opinion. No new authorities are cited in said Petition.
“ ‘ A petition for rehearing should never be used merely for the purposes of rearguing the case on points already considered and determined, unless some new and decisive authority has been discovered, which was overlooked by the court.’ Nashville v. State Board of Equalisation, 210 Tenn. 587, 618, 360 S.W.2d 458, 472 (1962); Caruthers, History of a Lawsuit 508 (7th ed. 1951), and cases cited therein. See also Rule 32 (Rules of this Court), 209 Tenn. 785, 806-807.” Whitaker v. House (1963) 213 Tenn. 61, 70, 372 S.W.2d 194, 198-199.
Nevertheless, we have reviewed our Original Opinion and reaffirm our holding set out therein.
The Petition to Rehear is hereby overruled and denied.
Dyer, Chief Justice, C'reson, Justice, and Jenkins, Special Justice, concur.
Me Canless, Justice, not participating.