Defendant was convicted of criminal attempt to commit theft by deception.
The state’s evidence showed that defendant attempted to withdraw money from a local savings and loan association by exhibiting a passbook that did not belong to him. Held:
Defendant’s sole enumeration is that the trial court erred in allowing, over objection, evidence that a few days prior to the offense charged defendant attempted to withdraw money from the same bank, by tendering the same passbook. Evidence of a separate crime is admissible when there is evidence that defendant was the perpetrator of that crime and a sufficient similarity or connection between the independent crime and the offense charged so that proof of the former tends to prove the latter. Sloan v. State,
Judgment affirmed.