Gordan v. State

COWART, JOE A., Jr., Associate Judge.

Defendant, convicted of aggravated assault on Ezekiel “Zeak” Young, Jr., in the Nassau Bar at 3:00 o’clock, a. m., alleges reversible error because the trial court admitted similar fact evidence that the defendant had also shot Lila Gilbert outside the same bar about 3 hours earlier and because the trial court did not give a cautionary instruction relating thereto when requested at the time Lila Gilbert testified.

The issue is whether the evidence of the prior crime showed only general criminal disposition or propensity or bad character and was erroneously…