Court Opinion

ID: 9714366
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:36:01.632364+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:25.469433
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

Achor, J.
Relator has filed a petition for rehearing. The attention of the court has been called to the fact, of which the court takes notice, that since the filing of the original petition herein, the respondent, Honorable William H. Schannen, has been succeeded by the Honorable W. O. Hughes, as regular Judge of the Allen Circuit Court, and he is therefore substituted as a party in these proceedings.
This case was previously considered by this court on a petition for writ of mandate to provide a transcript of the record for the purpose of an appeal at public expense. The fact that relator was not personally able to pay these expenses was not contradicted in the original proceedings. The sole controverted issue pre*633sented to this court by both the relator and respondent was the question of the ability of the parents of the relator to pay the cost of the expenses of an appeal. Therefore, it was assumed by this court that the relator was a minor and the original opinion was based upon that assumption. However, because the record in the case was incomplete on the issues presented, the case was remanded to the trial court “for further evidence, finding and determination.”
In his petition for rehearing relator states that he was 21 years of age at the time of his conviction and therefore his parents were under no legal obligation to pay the expenses of his appeal. The respondent does not contradict the fact of the relator’s majority or that the relator is without means with which to pay the costs of an appeal.
Therefore, the petition for rehearing is granted, the order of this court for further evidence, finding and determination in this cause is vacated and, consistent with this opinion, the alternative writ of mandate heretofore issued on June 2, 1960 is made permanent.
Arterburn, Jackson and Landis, JJ., concur.
Bobbitt, C. J., dissents.
Note. — Reported in 170 N. E. 2d 663. Rehearing granted 174 N. E. 2d 411.