Court Opinion

ID: 9507999
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:27:06.506392+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:26.639188
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE HARRISON,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
*347After further consideration in this cause, I hereby withdraw my signature from the majority opinion and submit the following:
I concur in the result, but dissent on the second issue of not allowing the sharing of attorney’s fees in appellant’s defense of criminal charges. I recognize that the statute does not provide for such fees, but in my wildest imagination I cannot think of a legislator ever considering a fact situation as presented in this case. Appellant was charged and tried by a jury and acquitted of a most grievous offense. His whole reputation and his future was on the line and to not allow attorney’s fees here is, in my opinion, a denial of fairness.