Herde v. State

The objection of plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as “defendant,” to the admission of testimony regarding his acts at the time of the commission of another crime early the same day is not altogether valid. While as a general rule a person charged with a particular offense has a right which should not be trespassed upon to have the evidence in support of such charge confined to that particular offense, there is an exception which permits the state to offer proof of other offenses so intimately connected with the one for which the defendant is on trial as to be evidentiary of intent,…