Meredith v. State

CONCURRING OPINION.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

While not dissenting from the result announced, concurrence in some of the expressions made in the course of the original opinion is withheld. That the general rule of evidence excludes proof against one accused of crime of other offenses committed by him is not open to question. The reasons for the rule have often been stated in the judicial decisions and by text-writers. See Underhill’s Crim. Evidence, 3rd Ed., Sec. 150. That to such general rule there are numerous exceptions is established with a certainty equal to that which applies to the rule…