State v. Snowden

The defendant, Wendall Asa Snowden, appellant herein, was tried and convicted before a jury on, separate offenses of safe-cracking—a violation of R. O. 29Í1¿31—and theft—a violation of R. C. 2913.02. On appeal, with the causes consolidated for purposes of' this opinion, he assigns as error common to both trials the admission into evidence of testimony elicited during cross-examination of; himself, tending to show the commission of certain criminal acts. The- testimony was said by the state to be justified under R. C. 2945.59, which states:

“In any criminal case in which the defendant’s motive,…