Court Opinion

ID: 9703296
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:51:02.942464+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:47.473810
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(concurring specially).
Roscoe Pound once wrote: “Law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still.” The majority opinion might lend itself, at first blush, to a disregard of stability as concerns the previous settled law of this state pertaining to the right of jury trial; however, nearly a century, lacking seven years, has passed since the 1887 Law was born and the demands upon a beleaguered judicial system do not permit a jury trial on a traffic offense punishable by a fine of $100.00. If one day of the defendant’s freedom was involved, I would dissent, but only his pocketbook is involved.. Defendant was fined $25 plus costs on a red light violation.