A is accused of fraudulently delivering counterfeit currency knowing it to be counterfeit. In BSA…

Illustration (b) to section 12 includes the earlier conviction because it bears on "Knowledge of its counterfeit nature". Knowledge differs from "Intention to deceive the recipient" and from "Motive for obtaining a financial advantage", and the inference does not establish "Automatic guilt of the present charge regardless of the other evidence"; Explanation 2 makes the earlier conviction relevant where the earlier commission of the offence bears on the state of mind.