Griffin v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

As we understand appellant’s motion for rehearing he is insisting that Art. 222 C. C. P. which permits an affiant to predicate a complaint on the statement that he “has good reason to believe and does believe,” etc., is violative of Art. 1, Sec. 5 of the State Constitution, which reads: “No person shall be disqualified to give evidence in any of the courts of this State on account of his religious opinions, or for the want of any religious belief, but all oaths or affirmations shall be administered in the mode most binding upon the conscience, and shall…