State v. Cook

Defendant was convicted of stealing bedspreads from a warehouse in Portland and appeals. Only one of the nine assignments of error need be mentioned. The other assignments are either without merit or are not directed to any ruling of the trial court to which exception or objection was made.

The facts are identical to those recited in the companion case of State v. Meidel, 1965, 241 Or 367, 405 P2d 844, and need not be repeated.

During defense counsel’s argument to the jury, in referring to the evidence of defendant’s previous record of crime, counsel stated that defendant had “been out with no…