STRICKLAND v. STATE

35631.

91 Ga. App. 843 (1955)

87 S.E.2d 363

STRICKLAND v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 15, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph L. Crawford, for plaintiff in error.

Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., Solicitor-General, Sylvan A. Garfunkel, Thomas M. Johnson, Jr., Assistant Solicitors-General, contra.


CARLISLE, J.

1. "On a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence which in any manner shows or tends to show that the accused had committed another crime wholly distinct, independent, and separate from that for which he is on trial, even though it be a crime of the same sort, is irrelevant and inadmissible, unless there be shown some logical connection between the two from which it can be said that proof of the one tends to establish the other." Bacon v. ...

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