Ricard v. State

I concur in the disposition of this case by Judge Morrison.

In reviewing the statement of facts, it is noted that the trial judge stated that he had read all the cases he could find on the law and that he had come to the conclusion that the only discretion he had in a given fact situation was when a defendant had an excuse for not being present in the trial court.

The careful trial judge, I think, earnestly endeavored to correctly interpret and apply the law in this case when he made the foregoing statement, and I infer from such statement and two other separate and almost identical statements…