Law v. State
Law v. State
Opinion of the Court
On further consideration of the record in the present case this court has reached the conclusion that the application for the writ of certiorari was improvidently granted, and accordingly the case is
Dismissed.
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting. This court granted the writ of certiorari in this case, after what I considered to be a thorough enough study to warrant the grant of the writ. The task of preparing the court’s opinion fell to me (after the petitioner had prepared his briefs and after the record had been prepared and sent to this court under the new rule). Upon presentation of the opinion to the court for consideration, a motion passed to dismiss the writ of certiorari as having been improvidently granted, which was done without opinion or explanation. It seems to me that after this court grants a petition for certiorari it should pass on the questions involved or give the reasons why the writ is dismissed, which would not include the question whether the judgment reviewed is right or wrong, because that would be a judgment on the merits and that would be inconsistent with an improvident grant of the writ.
I dissent from the dismissal of the writ. There are two questions raised which are vital enough to be decided. 1. In the petitioner’s notice of appeal he asked that nothing be omitted
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