State v. Giordano

SUMMERS, Justice.

Appellant Camille Giordano was charged in a bill of information with simple burglary. The principal if not sole evidence purporting to link appellant with the pífense were fingerprints alleged to have been lifted by the police from broken glass re moved from a window of the burglarized building on April 18, 1969. The glass was discarded after the prints were lifted, and it could not be produced at the trial.

This appeal is taken from a conviction and sentence to four and one-half years in the penitentiary.

The question we consider is the claim that the trial judge unduly…