Chapman v. State

Error is assigned in the first special ground upon the overruling of objections to the testimony of three witnesses on the ground that such testimony related to independent criminal transactions, was too remote in point of time, and did not tend to prove the defendant’s guilt of the crime with which he was charged. The testiinony admitted over objection was that in May, 1949, the defendant’s car was searched and lottery tickets found therein and he admitted he was carrying on a lottery; in May, 1950,’ he and one Pilcher were seen to get out of an automobile in which lottery tickets were found…