Parks v. State

What happened in this case may be stated quite simply. Prosecution persuaded trial judge to admit evidence of two unadju-dicated fraudulent transactions on issues of intent and knowledge which the prosecutor appropriated not so much to argue they showed intent and knowledge, but more to *742urge the jury to deny appellant probation because the aggregated amounts of money obtained through all three transactions is “a quarter of a million dollars.”

The prosecution did not really need extraneous offense to help prove intent and knowledge, as shall be demonstrated post. First, however, there are…