Opinion ID: 1146447
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Heading: evidence of other offenses

Text: During the trial the State's witness Baker over the objection of defendant testified that in addition to the hashish he obtained from defendant on May 9, 1969  the date charged in the first information  he also received on the same day some 27 tablets of mescaline and arranged for the receipt of one-half ounce of speed. In support of his claim that such testimony was inadmissible as constituting evidence of other crimes and compounded the error in consolidating the informations for trial, the defendant relies upon Tobin v. State, 36 Wyo. 368, 255 P. 788; Rosencrance v. State, 33 Wyo. 360, 239 P. 952; and State v. Wells, 29 Wyo. 335, 212 P. 1099. We think those cases are not particularly helpful inasmuch as the mescaline and speed were a part of the marijuana transaction. Apparently counsel for defendant overlooks the statement in Tobin that Evidence of another distinct crime is admissible where it was committed as a part of the same transaction. 255 P. at 790. In addition, as we have heretofore indicated, such testimony would be admissible under the rationale of State v. Lindsay, supra. In State v. George, 95 Ariz. 366, 390 P.2d 899, the court had before it substantially the same question we have here and it was held that evidence of the simultaneous sale of another narcotic not included in the charge was admissible. 390 P.2d at 902.