State v. Saunders

In 1969 defendant was found guilty by the Lane County Circuit Court and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a concealable firearm, ORS 166.270. At the trial a certified copy of the judgment evidencing defendant’s conviction in 1965 of a felony in Tillamook County was introduced. Also received in evidence in the 1969 trial was a record of the Oregon Correctional Institution which indicated defendant was 16 years old when received there from Tillamook County in 1965.

After both the state and defendant had rested, the trial court, sua sponte, in a colloquy with…