State v. Hamrick

WEBB, Judge.

The defendant has brought forward nine assignments of error. We shall discuss two of them. He assigns error to the admission of testimony by Bill Wease and Billy Joe Hill that with the defendant they had broken into other places and stolen tractors. We believe this assignment of error has merit.

The State offered evidence of the defendant’s involvement in other crimes to prove the crime for which the defendant was being tried. The State contends that in this case the evidence was properly admitted to prove intent or design and a plan to commit the crime charged. G.S. 8C-1, Rule…