Shinall v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. In Bacon v. State, 209 Ga. 261 (71 SE2d 615), on the trial of the defendant for burglary, the State introduced over objection three guilty pleas of the defendant as to other burglaries perpetrated within one week to three months of the date of the offense for which he was on trial. The Court of Appeals had, by a divided bench, affirmed the conviction. The Supreme Court reversing, held: “While the other offenses shown by the evidence objected to were of the same sort as the one for which the defendant was on trial, this did not render the evidence admissible, for they were…