Schneider v. People

I dissent from the court’s opinion in this case because of the prejudicial error which intervened, as I view it, by reason of the admission in evidence of proof of two unrelated and disconnected crimes alleged to have been committed by defendant in Michigan subsequent to the one involved herein.

We have held that such evidence should be admitted, if at all, with great caution and only in cases where it is clearly relevant to some issue involved (Dockery v. People, 74 Colo. 113, 115, 219 Pac. 220), or where it “tends to prove some element of the one for which the accused is being tried.” Jaynes…