Merritt v. State

Merritt was convicted of rape. He excepted to the denial of a new trial. His motion therefor contains the gen*754eral grounds and a number of special grounds. None of tbe head-notes suggests the need of elaboration, save the first. In several grounds of the motion error is assigned on the admission of evidence as to “separate and distinct crimes,” and on the charge of the court concerning said testimony. In the case of Williams v. State, 152 Ga. 498, 521 (110 S. E. 286), Chief Justice Fish said, speaking for the court: “The general rule is, that, on a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence…