Williams v. State

Today “the majority” adopts a broad, new and dangerous rule — an exception to an exception which finds no support in the law or the particular facts of this case. The majority holds that if any fact connected with an extraneous offense which tends to rebut a defensive issue becomes admissible, then the extraneous offense and all the details thereof also become admissible without any proof that the accused *820was guilty of such extraneous offense or was its perpetrator. I cannot agree.

The fact that a witness or witnesses saw an automobile bearing license No. GYW 916 in San Antonio on June 18,…