State v. Stodick

This is a companion case to that of State versus Bias, 1967, 248 Or 24, 432 P2d 312. Stodick and Bias were charged in one indictment with armed robbery. They were convicted in separate trials. In this appeal by defendant Stodick he claims he was prejudiced during the trial because a police officer testified that Stodick had declined to answer a question put to him by the officer when he was arrested.

The robbery occurred at about 8 a.m. in a department store in Eugene. About 20 minutes later a police officer heard a police radio transmission which described a certain Mercury automobile that…