State v. Thompson

The appellant is dissatisfied with the trial, which resulted on his conviction of burglarizing a jail, and asks for another, freed from the errors of which he complains.(1) Evidence of a prior independent offense committed by the appellant was improperly admitted, no connection having been established between the crime of which the appellant is here charged and the other offense. This is the appellant’s first assignment of error. The record, however, does not substantiate this assignment, for it appears therefrom that the other independent offense of which, complaint is made was so interwoven…