Ernest S. Borum v. United States

BAZELON, Chief Judge.

Borum appeals from a jury conviction for housebreaking. In another appeal, decided today, we affirmed Borum’s conviction for housebreaking and robbery committed one month after the alleged crime in the instant case. (Nos. 20092 and 20093, Stevenson and Borum v. United States, 127 U.S.App.D.C. -, 380 F.2d 590.) In that case, as in this one, the Government’s fingerprint evidence proved that at some time the defendants touched objects found at the scene of the crime. But there the Government introduced additional evidence indicating that these objects were generally…