Sanford v. State

This appeal centers its attack on the trial court ruling that evidence of the prior incident above involving this defendant was admissible in his trial on the charge of rape.

*79In this state, by statute, evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible “to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith,” but is not excluded “when offered for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”1 [Emphasis supplied.] In the instant case, the trial court admitted…