Brown v. State

Appellant was convicted of making and issuing a bad check in payment of a load of watermelons with intent to defraud the payee, the seller of the melons, and of obtaining the melons by means of the check. The court allowed the State to prove that appellant had given checks to other persons, and that these other checks, not connected in any way with the transaction for which appellant was being tried, were returned by the bank unpaid because of insufficient funds in appellant’s bank account. This is the sole error assigned here.

It is a settled rule of law that the evidence in a criminal case…