State v. Olds

*307RICHARDSON, J.

Defendant appeals his conviction of murder after a jury trial. He assigns as error the admission by the trial court of evidence of other crimes he committed subsequent to the murder for which he was charged and found guilty. The denial of defendant’s motion for mistrial based on admission of this evidence is also assigned as error. Defendant contends the evidence of other crimes, including kidnapping and a second murder, is so prejudicial as to have denied him his right to a fair trial.

The murder victim, Steven Schmerer, was a young cab driver in Walla Walla, Washington, who was…