State v. Watson

In this appeal by the state we shall first consider the two assignments of error advanced by defendant in the Court of Appeals, upon which that court predicated its reversal of the conviction.

Number one is defendant’s contention that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence the details of two other criminal acts allegedly committed by defendant.

Evidence of one of the prior criminal acts was adduced by the testimony of one Peter Ashcroft, a privately employed police officer, that three weeks before the Huber murder he was attacked by two men in his driveway and his gun was taken. At the…