State v. Thomas

The opinion of the court'was delivered by

Kaul, J.:

These appeals are from convictions in separate cases which were consolidated for trial in the district court of Sedgwick County. The appeals have been consolidated for hearing in this court and we shall refer to them in the singular.

Defendant’s principal ground for reversel is that consolidation of the cases, under the circumstances shown to exist, amounted to prejudicial error.

The two cases having been tried together over the timely protest of defendant, our inquiry on appellate review is whether the record indicates sufficient possibility of…