Court Opinion

ID: 9617263
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Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:53:51.831339+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:07.479547
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On Motion for Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
At the time of the oral argument and submission of this appeal, and at the time the decision of the court determining the appeal was rendered, this court consisted of Mr. Chief Justice Hugh Adair and Associate Justice Horace S. Davis, R. V. Bottomly, Forrest H. Anderson and Albert H.. Angstman, all of whom heard the oral arguments on the appeal and thereafter participated in the consideration of the case.
The decision of the court reversing the judgment of conviction and the trial court’s order denying a new trial was rendered and pronounced on January 5, 1957. The opinion of the court was written by Mr. Justice Davis and the disposition of the case therein made was concurred in by Chief Justice Adair and Justices Bottomly and Anderson while Mr. Justice Angstman dissented.
On January 7, 1957, Justice Anderson qualified for and assumed the office of Attorney General of the State, to which office he had been duly elected at the general election held November 6, 1956, and the Honorable Wesley Castles, on appointment of the Governor, qualified for and now fills the vacancy on this court so occasioned. Also on January 7, 1957, Justice Davis completed the term of his appointment and retired from the court, being succeeded by Justice Adair, who then and there qualified for and assumed the office of Associate Justice, to which he had been duly elected at the general election so held November 6, 1956. Thereafter, and on said January 7, 1957, the Honorable James T. Harrison, on appoint*58ment of the Governor, qualified for and assumed the office of' Chief Justice on this court.
Thereafter, on January 15, 1957, the state served and filed, a motion for a rehearing herein. Since Chief Justice Harrison and Mr. Justice Castles were not members of this court at the time of its consideration or determination by this court, neither took any part in the consideration or determination of the State’s motion for a rehearing herein.-
On the question being put, Shall the motion for rehearing  he granted? the members of this court so serving thereon at the time of the argument, submission and determination of this case on its merits decided as follows: In the affirmative: Justice Angstman and In the negative: Justices Adair and Bottomly, wherefore respondent’s motion for rehearing herein failed and the justices voting in the negative being of the opinion that the motion for a rehearing does not present any proposition or question which was not fully considered by the court in rendering its decision, and nothing being presented to- change the opinion of any member of this court who participated in this court’s decision heretofore rendered upon the question decided, the state’s motion for rehearing is denied, remittitur to issue forthwith. Gas Products Co. v. Rankin, 63 Mont. 372, 395-398, 207 Pac. 993, 999, 1000, 24 A.L.R. 294; State v. Morran, Mont., 306 Pac. (2d) 679.