Court Opinion

ID: 9850967
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:05:01.780111+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:46.167770
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Souris, J.
(dissenting). I dissent. This case should be reversed and remanded for new trial in a court of record. Our Constitution of 1963, art 10, § 2, requires no less.
In this case, the circuit judge commenced proceedings by empaneling a jury and terminated them by entry of judgment on the jury’s verdict. During the interval between commencement and termination, he was not present in the courtroom. That was the practice condoned in this State prior to the Constitution of 1963 and it was that practice article 10, § 2 was designed specifically to forbid thereafter, as my Brother Adams notes in his opinion.
Black, J., concurred with Souris, J.