166 Ga. App. 650 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1999
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bacon v. State · French v. State · 142 Ga. App. 1 - Smith v. State · 95 Ga. App. 161 - Tapley v. Youmans · 155 Ga. App. 563 - Rakestraw v. State
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“[o]n a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence which in any manner shows or tends to show that the accused has 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. [Cit.] Before evidence of independent crimes is admissible two conditions must be satisfied. First, there must be evidence that the defendant was in fact the perpetrator of the independent crime. Second, there must be sufficient similarity or connection between the independent crime and the offense charged, that proof of the former tends to prove the latter. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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