Carr v. State

Miller, Judge.

The primary question on appeal is whether the court’s charge to the jury on the issue of similar transaction evidence offered for the purpose of inferring defendant’s “predisposition to commit the crime” requires reversal. We find harmful error and reverse.

Responding to a dispatch call about a possible break-in, police saw Orashious Carr in another person’s mobile home near a bedroom window that had been broken in. At an officer’s command to come out, Carr announced that he would “come out the way [he] came in,” and he then exited out the front door. Although the home contained…