Williams v. State

Pope, Judge.

Derrick Williams was convicted of burglary and sentenced to a term of twenty years, fifteen to serve and five on probation. His sole enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of independent crimes. Held:

The evidence challenged here consisted of certified copies of indictments and guilty pleas from 1982 on four counts of burglary and four counts of theft by taking. “[Bjefore evidence of independent crimes is admissible there must be evidence that the defendant was the perpetrator and ‘there must be sufficient similarity or connection between the…