Wiley v. State

Officer Parkey, having testified that appellant made an oral confession of the burglary of the filling station, was permitted to testify further: “He said that they took the rifle, and were looking for some more jobs; that they wanted to pull some robberies,” and “He said that they were looking for some rifles and guns to commit other robberies.”

His reason for taking the rifle was not a disconnected, independent or extraneous transaction or crime, but an explanation of why a rifle and not other property was taken in the burglary. The authorities dealing with disconnected extraneous crimes are…