State v. Braunschweig

Decided October 15, 1866

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1866-10-15

<p>Evidence — Criminal Practice. — Upon the trial of a party indicted, evidence tending directly to prove the particular crime charged is to be received, although it may also tend to prove the commission of another separate and distinct offence. (See State v. Iiarrold, ante, 496.)</p>

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Decided 1866-10-15

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Wagner, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2There is no foundation for the position assumed by the appellant’s counsel, that the evidence offered for the State, and admitted by the court, was illegal, because it went to establish that the prisoner was guilty of a crime other than that charged in the indictment.

¶3The whole matter was so completely blended, that the entire evidence was necessary to obtain a history of the particular transaction, and as such ivas perfectly admissible within the principle of the case of the State v. Harrold, decided at this term (ante, 496).

¶4The instructions are unexceptionable, and no error being perceived the judgment is affirmed.

The other judges concur.