People v. DeVecchio

OPINION OF THE COURT

Gtjstin L. Reichbach, J.

Pursuant to People v Molineux (168 NY 264 [1901]) and its progeny, while a person on trial charged with a p£jrticular crime may not be shown to be guilty by evidence showing he has committed other crimes, evidence of other crimes is admissible when such evidence tends to establish the particular crime on trial by demonstrating motive, intent, the absence of mistake or accident, a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the other, or tends to establish the…