Claypool v. State

Carley, Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury on an indictment which charged him with rape, aggravated sodomy, and kidnapping with bodily injury. Verdicts of guilty were returned on all counts. Appellant appeals from the judgments of conviction and sentences entered by the trial court on the jury’s verdicts.

1. The trial court’s admission of evidence of appellant’s commission of four prior similar criminal acts is enumerated as error.

“Evidence of similar transactions or crimes is admissible when it is shown that the defendant is the perpetrator of-the similar offense, and there is sufficient…