Case Name: State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Henry Braunschweig, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1866-10
Citations: 38 Mo. 587
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Henry Braunschweig, Appellant.
Judges: The other judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 587–587

Head Matter:
State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Henry Braunschweig, Appellant.
Evidence — Criminal Practice. — Upon the trial of a party indicted, evidence tending directly to prove the particular crime charged is to be received, although it may also tend to prove the commission of another separate and distinct offence. (See State v. Iiarrold, ante, 496.)
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court.
Gottschalk and Mauro, for appellant.
Vastine, for respondent.

Opinion:
Wagner, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
There is no foundation for the position assumed by the appellant's counsel, that the evidence offered for the State, and admitted by the court, was illegal, because it went to establish that the prisoner was guilty of a crime other than that charged in the indictment.
The whole matter was so completely blended, that the entire evidence was necessary to obtain a history of the particular transaction, and as such ivas perfectly admissible within the principle of the case of the State v. Harrold, decided at this term (ante, 496).
The instructions are unexceptionable, and no error being perceived the judgment is affirmed.
The other judges concur.