State v. Dorsett

BALEY, Judge.

The sole contention of defendant concerns whether there was sufficient evidence to connect him with the breaking or entering and larceny, thereby requiring submission of the case to the jury.

Evidence of fingerprint identification when such fingerprints were secured from the roto-tenna in the Edwards home immediately after the commission of the crime combined with the fact that defendant was unknown to Mrs. Edwards and had no permission or lawful reason to enter her private residence was amply sufficient to take this case to the jury. State v. Helms, 218 N.C. 592, 12 S.E. 2d 243;…