CARR v. STATE

No. A01A0998.

553 S.E.2d 674 (2001)

251 Ga. App. 117

CARR v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

August 8, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher S. Warren, Albany, for appellant.

Kenneth B. Hodges, III, Dist. Atty., Jennifer Johnson-Green, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.


MILLER, Judge.

The primary question on appeal is whether the court's charge to the jury on the issue of similar transaction evidence offered for the purpose of inferring defendant's "predisposition to commit the crime" requires reversal. We find harmful error and reverse.

Responding to a dispatch call about a possible break-in, police saw Orashious Carr in another person's mobile home near a bedroom window that had been broken in. At an officer's command to...

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