Court Opinion

ID: 9685910
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 15:08:12.977096+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:11.252026
License: Public Domain

SUMMERS, Justice
(dissenting).
I agree that the trial judge was without authority to set aside his order granting a new trial. I do believe, however, that this court under its supervisory powers could properly set aside the trial court order granting a new trial. In doing so, we might then remand the case for resentencing.
I wish to also observe that the minority opinion of this court can have no effect insofar as it purports to instruct the trial judge in the forthcoming sentencing procedure. It is an improper and gratuitous effort to deprive the trial judge of his prerogative to pass upon the constitutionality of the sentencing statute in the first instance.