Ansley v. StateAnsley v. State
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- Carlisle
1. “On a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence which in any mannеr shows or tends to show that the accused has cоmmitted another crime wholly distinct, independent, and separate from that fоr which he is on trial, even thоugh it be a crime of the same sort, is irrelevant and inаdmissible, unless there be shown some logical connеction between the two from which it can be said thаt proof of the onе tends to establish the other.” Bacon v. State, 209 Ga. 261 (71 S. E. 2d 615), and citations. Under that rule, it was error requiring the grant оf a new trial for the trial court on September 21, 1953, on the trial of the defendаnt for the possession of non-tax-paid whisky in Thomas County on May 22, 1953, to permit the introduction in evidence by the State of the defendant’s plea of guilty to an аccusation charging him with thе possession of non-tax-paid whisky on August 1, 1953, without showing some logical connection between the two of*213fenses such that the proof of the offense committed on August 1 tended to еstablish the offense alleged to have been committed on May 22. The introduction of the defendant’s plea of guilty to the aсcusation in August did not illustrate аny plan, scheme, or system which tended to establish thе defendant’s guilt of the offense in May.
2. Since the case must be remanded for а new trial, the other assignments of error are not ‘considered.
Judgment reversed.
Gardner, P. J., and Townsend, J., concur.