Court Opinion

ID: 9584810
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:52:54.620541+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:17:01.461923
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
One of the grounds of appellant’s motion for rehearing in this case contends that this court has overlooked a material fact in the record, namely, that the examination of the appellant by Dr. Bosch was "for the purpose of the physician acting as a confident [sic] and advisor to defense counsel and to aid in the investigation and preparation of the case and the defenses of the mentally retarded defendant. The purpose of the examination was not to determine whether or not defendant was sane.”
The trial court judge’s order providing for the examination of the appellant by the psychiatrist is in the record, and it provides, among other things, that the examination by the psychiatrist was "for the purpose of thoroughly examining and determining the mental condition of the said John Thomas Plummer.”
We therefore interpret the purposes of the psychiatric examination, as set forth in the trial judge’s order, differently from that interpretation of the order made by the appellant in his motion for rehearing. We therefore did not overlook this material fact in the record. We merely disagree with the appellant’s interpretation of the purposes of the ordered psychiatric examination.
This and the other grounds contained in the motion for rehearing are without merit.

Motion for rehearing denied.