Court Opinion

ID: 9671249
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:33:23.986706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:08.988214
License: Public Domain

BLOODWORTH, Justice
(dissenting) :
At the general conference of the court when the opinion of Mr. Justice Lawson was presented, I concurred in the result. I did not indicate the reason for my concurrence. I wish to do so now since I have decided to dissent.
I concurred in the result of reversal solely because I believed that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to compel witness Partin on cross-examination (after he claimed the privilege against self-incrimination) to answer questions concerning whether he had talked “ * * * to Mr. Pierce [or] * * * to any officer of Local 612 during the time you were in Birmingham ?”
I have now become convinced that there was no reversible error in this ruling by the trial court and I would grant the application for rehearing, withdraw the original opinion, and render a decision affirming the judgment of the trial court.
The opinion of the majority authored by Mr. Justice Lawson is, in the words of a recent writer, “brilliantly written. It demonstrates laborious and penetrating research. It is most persuasive.” (This writer was previously persuaded.) But, I cannot concur in its conclusion as I have stated.
I most respectfully dissent.