Ross v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lonoke Circuit Court; Eugene Eankford, Judge; Evidence of the commission of other crimes, though similar, is inadmissible. 54 Ark. 626. Evidence of other crimes is admissible when so connected that it appears that defendant 'had a common purpose in all. 56 Ark. 284; 109 Mass. 457; iS N. Y. 589; 58 Vt. 315. Whatever tends to prove a man guilty of the crime charged may be given in evidence, though it also tends to show he has committed other crimes. 72 Ark. 598.…
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Appeal from Lonoke Circuit Court; Eugene Eankford, Judge; Evidence of the commission of other crimes, though similar, is inadmissible. 54 Ark. 626. Evidence of other crimes is admissible when so connected that it appears that defendant 'had a common purpose in all. 56 Ark. 284; 109 Mass. 457; iS N. Y. 589; 58 Vt. 315. Whatever tends to prove a man guilty of the crime charged may be given in evidence, though it also tends to show he has committed other crimes. 72 Ark. 598. Bish. New. Crim. Prac. 1123; Clark’s Crim. Prac. 517; 75 Ark. 433. It is not error to refuse an instruction on a…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
A grand jury of Lonoke County, at the August, 1909, term of the Lonoke Circuit Court, returned an indictment against George Ross. It contained two counts. In one it charged him with unlawfully stealing, taking and carrying away, on the 16th day of April, 1909, in the county of Lonoke, four dollars and fifty cents in United States money, of the property of A. Hamberg & Sons. In the other count it charged him with embezzling, at the same time and place, four dollars and fifty cents, in United States money, of the property of A: Ham-berg ■& Sons. He pleaded not guilty. The jury in the case found…
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