July v. State

The appellant, a juvenile at the time he raped an 82 year old widow and burglarized the dwelling in which she resided alone, claims that his convictions should be reversed and his sentences totaling 30 years set aside because a card on which the police had rolled an inked impression of his fingerprints was admitted in evidence in error.1 The sole ground for the allegation of error is that his arrest was unlawful and that the fingerprints were illegal fruit of the arrest, inadmissible under the principles enumerated in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643.

In Hall v. State, 233 Md. 378, 382 the Court of…