Sutphin v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence of other crimes “relevant to an issue or element” is admissible
• noting that \other crimes\ evidence is admissible \to prove motive to commit the crime charged\
• noting that “other crimes” evidence is admissible “to prove motive to commit the crime charged”
• explaining that evidence of prior acts of an accused towards a victim is admissible to “show the conduct and feeling of the accused toward his victim, or to establish their prior relations”
• noting that “[w]henever the evidence leaves indifferent which of several hypotheses is true, or merely establishes only some finite probability in favor of one hypothesis, such evidence does not amount to proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”
• holding evidence may have created a strong suspicion or even a probability defendant was guilty of committing larceny, but as a matter of law was insufficient to identify him as the criminal agent to the exclusion of a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).