Court Opinion

ID: 9848628
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:23:45.129489+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:31.399294
License: Public Domain

Schroeder, J.,
concurring: With one exception, I agree with the court’s opinion. I cannot agree that there are no similarities in the facts of the Missouri case (assault with intent to rob) which appear to be relevant to prove any of the eight statutory factors of proof concerning robbery in the first degree with which the appellant is here charged. The evidence is relevant to prove intent and some of the other statutory factors enumerated (State v. Wright, 194 Kan. 271, 398 P.2d 339).
If the court is going to depart from its prior construction and application of K. S. A. 60-455, it should overrule the prior decisions inconsistent with the stance now taken. The tenor of the court’s opinion is inconsistent with State v. Taylor, 198 Kan. 290, 292, 424 P. 2d 612; State v. Wright, supra, and other decisions which rely upon them. If the instruction given in State v. Wright, supra, in the statutory language is too broad, decisions approving such instruction under 60-455, supra, should be disapproved. Trial judges should be able to ascertain what the law is by reading the court’s decisions.