State v. Klamert
Decision Date | 11 June 1969 |
Parties | STATE of Oregon, Respondent, v. Emil KLAMERT, Appellant. |
Court | Oregon Supreme Court |
John Marvin Kuhn, Deputy Public Defender, Salem, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender.
Robert A. Lucas, Deputy Dist. Atty., Portland, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was George Van Hoomissen, Dist. Atty.
Before McALLISTER, P.J., and O'CONNELL and DENECKE, JJ.
The judgment was convicted of assault with intent to kill and sentenced to imprisonment for 15 years, from which judgment he appeals.
The only assignment of error alleges that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of a threat made by defendant against a class of persons because the victim was not a member of the class.
On August 9, 1967, Officer Floyd Embree, a Portland policeman, went to defendant's residence in northeast Portland to investigate a complaint about someone shooting in the area. When Embree questioned defendant in his home, he found that defendant would not talk about the shooting, but wanted to complain about a beating he had received in a tavern about two weeks earlier. Defendant, who had been drinking, became belligerent. Enbree cautioned defendant about his abusive language and started to leave. Defendant asked the officer to wait and stepped into an adjoining room. Embree started to follow defendant, but as he got to the doorway he met defendant, who pointed a rifle at Embree's chest and said: The officer testified:
'I put my right arm up against the gun and pushed it aside. I said,
'Again he drew it away and said,
The officer was hit in the shoulder by the bullet and seriously injured.
Defendant testified that he had purchased the rifle 'just a few weeks' before he shot Embree. A neighbor testified that about two weeks before the shooting defendant told him that he bought the rifle '(t)o shoot the first son-of-a-bitching officer that walked through that door.'
Defendant was apparently an alcoholic and had on several occasions served terms in the city jail for drunkenness. Officer O'Drane, who was in charge of the trusty section of the jail, testified the around the middle of July the following occurred:
'A Well, right around the middle of July or approximately there, right at close to twelve o'clock noon, I was sitting in my office. That is on the third floor of the Police Building, and I heard a man talking. And I turned around and Mr. Klamert was there, standing just outside of my office, and he was speaking and I said, 'What is it?
'And he said,--he says, 'Young cops.' He says, 'Punks, they should be killed.'
'Well, this is not unusual in our business to hear this, and, of course, I knew Mr. Klamert and I said, 'Well, do you mean me?'
"No, not you, young ones.'
'I said, 'Well, go--get away, get lost, take off.' And that's just about the extent of it right there. I didn't want to talk to the man and I just said, 'Leave', and he did.
'Q He was not in custody then?
'A No, he was not.'
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