context: For example, if a witness testified in this case that he had seen appellant reach out, grab Autumn's hand, and burn her palm with a lit cigarette two days before the group came to the hospital, this testimony (and any pictures showing Autumn's palm with a cigarette burn) would clearly be relevant as tending to show that it was appellant, not Crystal, who burned Christopher's palm. To prove identity in this context, the two acts must be so distinctively similar as to constitute a "signature" act.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 920 S.W.2d 319, 322
citation_a.parenthetical: prior murder committed ten days before capital murder was sufficiently similar to be a "signature crime"
citation_a.sentence: See Beets v. State, 767 S.W.2d 711, 740-41 (Tex.Crim.App.1987) (noting the defendant's “signature” use of the same weapon, motive, time, and means of disposing of bodies, in two different murders); see also Taylor v. State, 920 S.W.2d 319, 322 (Tex.Crim.App.1996) (prior murder committed ten days before capital murder was sufficiently similar to be a “signature crime”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 767 S.W.2d 711, 740-41
citation_b.parenthetical: noting the defendant's "signature" use of the same weapon, motive, time, and means of disposing of bodies, in two different murders
citation_b.sentence: See Beets v. State, 767 S.W.2d 711, 740-41 (Tex.Crim.App.1987) (noting the defendant's “signature” use of the same weapon, motive, time, and means of disposing of bodies, in two different murders); see also Taylor v. State, 920 S.W.2d 319, 322 (Tex.Crim.App.1996) (prior murder committed ten days before capital murder was sufficiently similar to be a “signature crime”).