Legal Opinion
State v. Van Isler
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided November 3, 1981No. 14931PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McHugh, Justice:
This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Ohio County, entered on December 10, 1979, which sentenced the appellant, Nathan Van Isler, to serve one to 15 years in the West Virginia Penitentiary for the crime of breaking and entering a dwelling house. The appellant assigns the trial court’s admission of fingerprints taken when he was a juvenile, and testimony based thereon, into evidence at his trial as error.
The record discloses that the appellant had been fingerprinted on three occasions by the Wheeling Police Department. At the time he was first…
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