State v. Acosta

Defendant was convicted and sentenced under a charge of having in his possession a Ford coupé, knowing the same to have been previously stolen.

On the trial of the case, it developed from the evidence that the stolen automobile bore the mutilated number 7085761, and that, by the use of a secret process, the original number 8016551 had been restored by the police department of-the city of New Orleans.

The state witness having testified to the accuracy of the test and the result, defendant’s counsel objected to the evidence on the ground that the processing had been done out of the presence of…