23 N.C. App. 99 - State v. Wilborn’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1981
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. McClain · State v. McClain · State v. Atkinson · State v. Jenerett · State v. Long
Most-quoted passages
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“The general rule in North Carolina is that the State may not offer proof of another crime independent of and distinct from the crime for which defendant is being prosecuted even though the separate offense is of the same nature as the charged crime. [Citations omitted.] However, such evidence is competent to show ‘the quo animo, intent, design, guilty knowledge, or scienter, or to make out the res gestae, or to exhibit a chain of circumstances in respect of the matter on trial, when such crimes are so connected with the offense charged as to throw light upon one or more of these questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conner
How this case has been treated — in progress
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