Weldon v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the first ground of the amended motion for a new trial error is assigned on the testimony of the police officer that the defendant emerged from the house with his hands in the air, and, as he got close enough to the witness, attempted to seize his shotgun, which evidence was ojected to on the ground that it referred to another crime not incorporated within the indictment. Evidence of the commission of a crime other than the one charged is generally not admissible. Cawthon v. State, 119 Ga. 395 (2) (46 S. E. 897). However,' such evidence may be…