State v. Jones

The defendant is appealing his conviction of the crime of burglary not in a dwelling.

When the employees of a store in Portland came to work on a Monday morning, they found the store burglarized. The investigating officer found that the burglar had gained access by breaking a hole in the glass in a door, reached through the hole and turned the door knob on the inside and thereby opened the door. The officer examined the wooden door frame near the knob and the hole in the glass and found a fingerprint.

The fingerprint was subsequently identified as that of the defendant. This was the only…