Combs v. State

Carley, Chief Judge.

After a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of kidnapping with bodily injury, kidnapping, cruelty to children, two counts of false imprisonment, and three counts of aggravated assault. He appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered on the jury’s guilty verdicts and from the denial of his motion for new trial.

1. Over objection, the State was allowed to introduce evidence of appellant’s commission of an independent crime. This ruling is enumerated as error.

“ ‘Generally, evidence of other criminal acts of the defendant is inadmissible because it tends to…