TATE, Justice.
The defendant Smith was convicted of simple burglary, La.R.S. 14:62, and sentenced as a multiple offender, La.R.S. 15:529.1, to eighteen years imprisonment at hard labor.
The defendant's single assignment of error is taken as to the trial court's denial of his motion for a mistrial. The defendant argues that he was entitled to a mandatory mistrial based upon an alleged comment by the arresting officer and the prosecutor upon "* * * the failure...
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