Court Opinion

ID: 9864490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:31:00.729438+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:13:57.978936
License: Public Domain

THE COURT.
The petition for hearing herein is denied. In denying said petition we desire not only to approve but to emphasize the expressions of the district court of appeal with relation to the decorum which should attend the trial of actions at law, and the degree of judicial dignity and of judicial patience and impartiality as well, which should characterize the conduct and pronouncements of those to whom is entrusted the delicate power of sitting in judgment; and while we are in agreement with the appellate tribunal that the departure of the trial judge from these ideals in the instant case may not be held to amount to such misconduct as, in the state of the record, would suffice to justify a reversal, we have deemed this an apt cause and a timely *66occasion to give expression of our disapproval of this and of all similar departures from the standards of judicial decorum and dignity which should attend the trial of all causes, and particularly all criminal causes, in the courts of this state.
All the Justices concurred.