Court Opinion

ID: 9661872
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:53:54.907136+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:57:55.177451
License: Public Domain

J. H. Gillis and Van Valkenburg, JJ.
(concurring). Based on existing case law, we reluctantly concur in the results. Here, the defendant initiated the offer to plead after some of the prospective jurors were seated in the jury box. Eight indorsed witnesses and approximately 150 jurors were pres*552ent in the court house at the moment that defendant nudged his attorney and indicated he wanted to enter a plea. Such permissible tactics on the part of a defendant tend to discourage witnesses to come into a court of law. As we order a new trial these same witnesses will again be required to return to court and lose more time from their normal schedule in order to testify in this cause. The defendant, who at the time of his plea was already imprisoned on another charge, will have another chance to "play games” with a busy trial judge and have his day in court.