Henderson v. Commonwealth

Opinion

BARROW, J.

This appeal challenges the admissibility of evidence of an accused’s participation in two robberies for which he was not on trial to prove that he committed two other robberies for which he was being tried. The manner of committing these robberies was not sufficiently unusual or distinctive to prove that, since the accused committed the two robberies for which he was not on trial, he also committed the robberies for which he was being tried. We, therefore, conclude that evidence of the accused’s participation in the robberies for which he was not on trial was not admissible…