Court Opinion

ID: 9638060
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:31:54.441167+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:00:05.753279
License: Public Domain

HOOD, Chief Judge
(concurring).
I concur fully in Judge Myers’ opinion .and write this only because of some language ■in the dissent. The dissent states that if the trial court’s decision was made on factual grounds — and it is plain to me that it was — then it was “manifestly wrong in rejecting defendant’s uncontradicted evidence.” In my opinion our dissenting colleague is manifestly wrong. He accepts •defendant’s testimony as true and thinks the trial court should have done so. He forgets that the credibility of a witness is a matter for the trial court and not for this court. 'The trial court saw appellant and heard her testimony. The trial court was not ’bound to accept appellant’s story which was unusual, to say the least, especially when appellant failed to call as a witness her brother who, according to her testimony, was an eyewitness to the whole transaction.