Meadows v. State

Webb, Judge.

Melvin Meadows was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault, and he contends here that the trial court erred in overruling his "objection to the lack of a proper chain of custody being established by the State in relation to a latent fingerprint card, allegedly bearing the fingerprints of the appellant.”

At trial Officer Frazier of the Rome Police Department testified that he "lifted” fingerprint impressions from the door handle of the automobile belonging to the victim Brown at the scene of one of the shootings. He further testified that he placed the impressions on a…