Commonwealth v. Albright

Wickersham, J.,

This defendant was indicted !'to the numbers and session above stated, charging him with an attempt to commit burglary; he was convicted. Thereafter he moved for a new trial, alleging the verdict was against the law and against the weight of the evidence. These objections were not pressed at the argument of this motion before the court in banc.

The third reason alleged for a new trial was: “The identity of the fingerprints having been offered in evidence, and this being uncorroborated by any other evidence identifying the defendant as the one who committed the crime, the jury’s…