Court Opinion

ID: 9670646
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:23:52.845724+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:05.830233
License: Public Domain

ON REHEARING
This Court ex mero motu in the interest of justice placed this cause back on rehearing docket for reconsideration of the opinion on original deliverance.
On our original deliverance we were misled by the record as to the date of appellant’s arraignment and date of trial.
The caption sheet prepared by the court reporter and attached to the transcript of the testimony states that the trial took place on August 18, 1972.
The first sentence in the minutes of the court is preceded by the figures, “8/15/72;” thus indicating that the arraignment in the presence of counsel took place on that date.
The next paragraph of the minutes shows a jury verdict finding the defendant guilty.
The third paragraph of the minute entry shows due and proper allocution but no mention is made that counsel for defendant was present.
In view of the fact that the record shows that counsel for defendant was present at the arraignment and also during the trial, we infer that he was present at allocution which, for aught that appears, took place on the same day without intervening days between said stages.
The original opinion is modified by eliminating therefrom the order of remandment for allocution in the presence of counsel and the application for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion modified. Affirmed.
All the Judges concur.