context: Conversely, offenses which are of the same nature, but which do not arise out of a single chain of circumstances and are not provable by the same evidence may not properly be tried together.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.parenthetical: proper to try together all crimes arising from a single uninterrupted crime spree
citation_a.sentence: Cf. State v. Woomer, 276 S.C. 258, 277 S.E.2d 696 (1981) (proper to try together all crimes arising from a single uninterrupted crime spree).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: finding that joint trial on identical but unrelated forgeries violated defendant's right to a fair trial
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., State v. Middleton, 288 S.C. 21, 339 S.E.2d 692 (1986) (holding although prison escapee committed two murders within a few miles of each other and attempted an armed robbery, the trial judge erred in consolidating the charges for one trial where the crimes did not arise out of a single chain of circumstances and they required different evidence); State v. Tate, 286 S.C. 462, 334 S.E.2d 289 (Ct.App.1985) (finding that joint trial on identical but unrelated forgeries violated defendant’s right to a fair trial).