Court Opinion

ID: 9545712
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:18:02.859098+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:15:25.150738
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY:
(specially concurring in result).
' T concur in the result reached in the majority opinion upon the grounds set forth in the specially concurring opinion of Mr. Justice Adair, -and for the further reason that under our form of government, our Constitution and Codes, there is no *553inherent power in any of onr courts. Inherent- power, as I understand it, is an authority possessed without its being derived from another; a right, ability or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, ability or faculty from another.
Where, as under our Constitution and Codes, all power and authority of courts are derived from the people, no “inherent power” can possibly be claimed by courts. The only such exercise of “inherent power” is by Almighty God, and certainly no court or judge thereof may presume to exercise such omnipotent authority or power.