State v. Sanders

Defendant Charles Sanders was convicted upon a jury trial of second-degree burglary in the breaking and entering of the Clarke Floor Machine Company in Kansas City on August 3,1978. Pursuant to the verdict, he was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.

Defendant’s first complaint upon this appeal is that the court failed to declare a requested mistrial when a police officer, asked what defendant had said after he was arrested and after he had been informed of his rights, answered: “Yes, sir, he said he want to talk to us about some burglaries”.1

Defendant says this showed other crimes of the…