Rosborough v. State

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

1. On the trial of one charged with a particular crime, evidence which tends to show that the accused has committed another crime wholly independent from that for which he is on trial, even though it be a crime of the same sort, is irrelevant and inadmissible. Williams v. State, 152 Ga. 498 (110 S. E. 286); Cawthon v. State, 119 Ga. 395 (46 S. E. 897); Frank v. State, 141 Ga. 243 (80 S. E. 1016); Bacon v. State, 209 Ga. 261 (71 S. E. 2d, 615). The evidence here of an accusation of assault and battery upon which the accused had been previously convicted has no logical…