Defendant claims on this appeal that the trial court abused its discretion in ruling on his Sandoval motion. That motion was made orally by defendant subsequent to the jury selection and prior to opening statements. The record reveals that defendant had been convicted of two illegal sales of alcoholic beverages in 1972, and that in the same year defendant was arrested in California on three separate occasions. The court ruled that questioning...
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