Johnson v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of receiving stolen property from Edgar Warren and Ben Farrar, knowing the'same to have been stolen, and his punishment assessed at one day’s confinement in the county jail. Objection was reserved to the admission of testimony showing that certain railroad cars were burglarized at different times from the one mentioned in the'information. This objection should have been sustained. Where contemporaneous crimes tend to develop the res' gestae, show the intent, or identify the transaction, they are admissible; and, under certain circumstances,'…