State v. Plaines

Branch, Judge.

After Andre Plaines was charged with second-degree burglary, second-degree criminal damage to property, possession of tools for the commission of crime, and smash-and-grab burglary, the State filed a motion of its intention to introduce other-act evidence of a different second-degree burglary in the same county to which Plaines had pled guilty. The trial court denied the State's motion on the ground that the other-act evidence was not relevant under OCGA § 24-4-404 (b). On appeal from this ruling, the State argues that this other-act evidence is relevant and that the trial court…