This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol10 Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wills, Administration", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Evidence of the burning of other buildings about the same time in the same locality is competent as tending to prove the burning charged where the different acts appear to have been connected as one transaction.288
But evidence of the burning of other buildings is not competent, unless there is evidence connecting the accused with such other burning.289
 
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