Maurice Bentford was charged with sexually assaulting a six-year-old child, and the State sought to introduce evidence of other crimes or acts under Georgia’s evidence statutes. The trial court ruled for the State without fully addressing the statutory requirements, and Bentford obtained interlocutory review. The Court of Appeals of Georgia vacated the ruling and remanded with direction. It held that the trial court had to determine whether the proposed evidence satisfied the applicable statutory admissibility requirements and then apply the required balancing test under the rule excluding substantially unfair prejudice. Because those decisions had not been made, the appellate court did not resolve the ultimate admissibility of the other-acts evidence.