Court Opinion

ID: 9584246
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Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:45:51.873899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:15.857233
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On Motion for Rehearing.
Clark, Judge.
Appellant filed his motion for rehearing on two grounds. The first asserts the original opinion in this case was written by a judge, who had not been present at the time of the oral arguments. (The writer’s predecessor, Honorable George P. Whitman, was ill at that time and subsequently retired).
*534Although credit is to be given an advocate for his zeal in protecting the rights of his client, it should be noted that "oral arguments before the appellate court are intended to aid the court in understanding the points raised and discussed in the briefs filed by the parties.” 5 CJS 529, Appeal and Error, § 1401 (b).
The writer of the Corpus Juris Secundum article points out the right to make an oral argument in an appellate court exists only in accordance with provisions of applicable statutes or rules of the court. The latest rules of this court became effective July 1, 1971, and are contained in volume 122 of Georgia Appeals Reports beginning at page 885. Rule 41 provides for consideration of appeals "with or without oral argument and a quorum of the division is present.” It further provides: "counsel in no case shall have the right to demand that the oral argument be had by a full division merely because of the absence of the other member of the division, he not being disqualified from participating in the decision of the case.”
Ground 2 of the motion for rehearing earnestly contends that reconsideration should be had of Division 6 of the original opinion. Here "the same ground is plowed” as was argued in the written briefs. Presentation of the same material fails to meet the requirements of subparagraph F of rule 33 which states the basis for granting a rehearing.
The motion for permission to make another oral argument is denied as well as the motion for rehearing.

Judgment adhered to.

Hall, P. J., and Eberhardt, J., concur.