Court Opinion

ID: 9763899
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:00:36.323441+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:51.007389
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ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
*28WOODLEY, Judge,
(dissenting).
The majority overrule the State’s motion for Rehearing without written opinion.
Assuming that the statement of appellant constituted evidence of an extraneous offense, such proof is admissible in a circumstantial evidence case to disprove the defense of accident where the intent becomes an issue in the trial, as where it is claimed that the act in question was the result of mistake, accident or inadvertance.
Had evidence been available that appellant had murdered his former wife, the rule stated would render it admissible at his trial for the murder of his second wife, the state relying upon circumstantial evidence and his testimony raising the defense of accident.
It is not my purpose to dissent on the ground that the statement of appellant to Ranger White should have been admitted, but to demonstrate that, as contended by counsel for the state, there was reasonable ground to believe that it was admissible; that it was not offered in bad faith; and was not so “obviously hurtful and inadmissible for any purpose” that appellant was not required to make his objection timely; or to state a specific ground for his objection, or to seek to relieve himself of the effect of the statement.