Ates v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. It is now too well established to admit of argument that "on a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence which in any manner shows or tends to show that the accused has committed another crime wholly distinct, independent, and separate from that for which he is on trial, even though it be a crime of the same sort, is irrelevant and inadmissible,” with exceptions not here pertinent. Bacon v. State, 209 Ga. 261 (71 SE2d 615); Code § 38-202.

In the present case the defendant was charged with theft by taking of three Western Union Telegraph Company money orders. At the…