Court Opinion

ID: 9723690
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:27:42.780404+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:51.136728
License: Public Domain

Dissenting Opinion
DeBruler, J.
I would order this appellant to be tried again without any reference to his prior crime. I continue firm in my belief that evidence of other crimes is inadmissible when it merely attempts to show a predisposition to commit a crime. Calling this prior crime evidence of a “depraved sexual instinct”, whatever that phrase means in modern terminology, does not make this highly prejudicial evidence relevant in any manner to the case at bar. See my dissents in Kerlin v. State (1970) , 255 Ind. 420, 265 N. E. 2d 22, and in Miller v. State (1971) , 256 Ind. 296, 268 N. E. 2d 299.