Court Opinion

ID: 9552951
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 19:19:35.670586+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:29:24.992963
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ROONEY, Justice,
concurring.
In concurring with the opinion of Justice Raper, I confirm that which I said in my specially concurring opinion in Taylor v. State, Wyo., 612 P.2d 851 (1980). I concur herein only because Rule 24(a), W.R.Cr.P. does not require the writing by which a jury trial is waived to be by the defendant or subscribed to by him. A written record was made of the waiver by defendant in this case, and it can be argued that such was sufficient under the rule. Although I am reluctant to accept such argument, I must acknowledge that it can be made. The rule should be explicit in this respect, and I anticipate that it will be changed to be so.