Woodson v. State

The defendant was indicted and convicted for rape. Sentence was forty years' imprisonment. Two issues are presented on appeal.

I

It is argued that the admission into evidence of the defendant's fingerprint record from the Opelika Police Department constituted error because (1) it indicated that he had a criminal record and (2) it violated his constitutional rights because the record was made when the defendant was a juvenile.

Fingerprints found at the scene of the crime were matched to those of the defendant through the use of a fingerprint record or card on file in the Opelika Police…