Court Opinion

ID: 9742477
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:14:32.910577+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:32.979487
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Dissenting Opinion
White, J.
Repeatedly we have held that “it is not the function of this court to determine the weight and credibility of the evidence”,1 yet without so doing, how can the majority determine that the evidence of Buchanan’s guilt is so overwhelming that the jury could not have been misled by the erroneous instruction?
Since I prefer to follow our well established rule, I would reverse and remand for a new trial.
Note. — Reported at 336 N.E.2d 654.

. Summers v. State (1972), 153 Ind, App. 22, 27, 287 N.E.2d 260. In that same volume 153 of our official reports there are a total of twenty opinions in criminal appeals, sixteen, or over 'fifty percent, of' those ' opinions state this same rule.