Mutcherson v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of burglary (OCGA § 16-7-1) and the aggravated sodomy (OCGA § 16-6-2) and rape (OCGA § 16-6-1) of his sister.

The sole enumeration of error is the admission into evidence, over a chain of custody objection, of slides of semen samples taken from the victim’s vagina.

At trial a physician testified that he made the slides while examining the victim, marked them, and placed them in a cardboard slide carrier which he then sealed with tape and wrote on. He identified his markings at trial. A police detective testified that she removed a police…