State v. Poulos & Perez

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

This is an appeal by the defendants, George Dan Poulos and Salvadore S. Perez, following their conviction by a jury in Sedgwick District Court of aggravated robbery, K.S.A. 21-3427. Defendants claim that the trial court erred (1) in admitting all of a 54-minute tape recording into evidence; (2) in allowing the tape to be taken into and replayed in the jury room; and (3) in refusing defendants’ requested instruction that specific intent to permanently deprive is an element of aggravated robbery.

Poulos and Perez met with a man named Meyers in…