Court Opinion

ID: 9832090
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:36:43.331722+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:41.952295
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We did not mean, by stating in our opinion that Moneada absconded with the truck, to be understood as saying that he stole it. The only current meanings of the word abscond given by the Oxford English Dictionary are; “ ‘to hide oneself; to retire from the public view; generally used of persons in debt, or criminals eluding the law’. J; to go away hurriedly and secretly.” We used the word to mean that Mon-*111cada stole away in or by means of the truck, not that he stole it. We believe the evidence will bear no other construction.
Motion for rehearing refused.