Cabrera v. State

Dissenting opinions are usually in vain, and for the most part useless. I am always reluctant to dissent from an opinion representing the deliberate convictions of my associates and heretofore, in the few instances in which I have found myself unable to agree with them, I have done no more than to briefly note that fact with as brief a statement of the substance of my own opinion as possible, but the importance of the questions involved in this case and that decent respect for the opinion of the profession which every judge should entertain, have constrained me to set out at length the…