Moon v. State
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Cochise. Alfred C. Lockwood, Judge. STATEMENT OP PACTS. The defendant has appealed from a judgment of the superior court of Cochise county, whereby he was convicted of the offense of burglary in the first degree, and pursuant to which he was sentenced to the state prison at Florence for an indeterminate period of not less than five nor more than fifteen years.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Cochise. Alfred C. Lockwood, Judge. STATEMENT OP PACTS. The defendant has appealed from a judgment of the superior court of Cochise county, whereby he was convicted of the offense of burglary in the first degree, and pursuant to which he was sentenced to the state prison at Florence for an indeterminate period of not less than five nor more than fifteen years. The facts are substantially as follows: John Tren’s butcher-shop, situated in Bisbee, was burglarized, in the night-time, on the 6th of September, 1919. The safe in the shop…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.
(After Stating the Facts as Above.)— Error is assigned upon the usual ground that the evidence is insufficient upon which to base the conviction or sustain the judgment. After a very careful review of the evidence in the case, we fail to see any merit in the assignment. The evidence for the prosecution rests principally upon the correspondence or exactness of certain “finger-prints.” This evi*422deuce was introduced "by several expert witnesses, who testified in detail as to their study of and inquiry into the subject of finger-prints as a means of identification. They claimed to have made a…
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