Court Opinion

ID: 9703769
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:07:24.557031+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:51.602462
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On Petition for Rehearing
Hunter, J.
The appellant has filed a petition for rehearing in this cause and alleges as one ground for rehearing that:
“The majority opinion did not consider the introduction of the evidence of other unrelated .crimes through the testimony of the regular presiding judge of the trial court (who did not sit at trial), under the theory that the appellant’s motion for a new trial was not sufficient to present any error with regard to the admission of evidence, while the case of Layton v. State (1966), 248 Ind. 52, 221 N. E. 2d 881, (which clearly holds that one crime cannot be proved in order to establish another) was decided under a motion for a new trial, that is identical to the one in the instant case.”
An examination of this court’s opinion in Layton v. State, swpra, cited by appellant would indeed lead the reader to believe that the motion for new trial in that case was identical to the motion for new trial filed in this case. The opinion in Layton states at one point:
“Such motion in pertinent part alleged the two following grounds:
‘1. That the verdict of the jury is not sustained by sufficient evidence.
‘2. That the verdict of the jury is contrary to law.’ ”
*358The opinion then goes on to consider allegations of error going to the introduction of evidence of prior crimes.
However, an examination of the transcript filed with this court in the Layton case reveals that the appellant there filed a very extensive motion for new trial, and that among the grounds alleged as causes for a new trial are causes numbered 27, 28 and 29 alleging “error of law occurring at the trial” in the introduction of the evidence of prior crimes. The opinion in Layton is misleading to the extent that it does not make it clear that the error upon which its decision was based was properly raised. Therefore, the case cited by the appellant does not stand for the rule that errors in the introduction of evidence can be raised by a general allegation that the verdict of the jury is contrary to law.
No other ground is alleged in the petition for rehearing that was not considered and disposed of in the original opinion in this case. Therefore, the rehearing should be denied.
Rehearing denied.
Arterburn, J., concurs.