People v. Tobey

Bradley Tobey was convicted of two charges of sale of heroin 1 set forth in separate informations which were joined for trial.

The two sales, on February 17 and February 29, 1972, were made to a police undercover agent who, between the first and second sales, made three telephone calls to Tobey. The police recorded the calls, and the recordings were subjected to spectrographic (voiceprint) analysis. The results of that analysis were admitted at the trial, ovér objection, to corroborate the undercover agent’s identification of Tobey as the person with whom he had conversed on the telephone.

The…