Blessey v. New Orleans Oil Factory

How courts have described this case

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• noting that while there is no requirement that the uncharged acts be identical to the charged act, there must still be “sufficient similarity to logically conclude that a similar intent existed”
• “[I]f there is a common motive for both the uncharged misconduct and the charged offense, evidence that the accused committed the former strengthens the inference” that he committed the latter.
• use of other similar acts to establish motive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).