Craig v. State

1. A recent possession of stolen goods, not satisfactorily explained, is an inference of guilt (Chambers v. State, 68 Ga. App. 338 (3), 23 S. E. 2d 545; Hunt v. State, 64 Ga. App. 320, 13 S. E. 2d 117; Lundy v. State, 71 Ga. 360), on a prosecution for burglary.

2. Evidence of other criminal transactions is not generally admissible on the trial of a defendant in a criminal case, there being an exception in cases where two crimes are so similar in point of method or time that the proof of one tends to prove the other. Bacon v. State, 209 Ga. 261 (71 S. E. 2d 615); Merritt v. State, 168 Ga. 753…