People v. Sánchez Delgado

Mr. Justice Dávila

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The only evidence presented in the trial connecting appellant with the criminal acts charged was a fingerprint taken from the inner part of the broken glass of a show window of the burglarized jewelry shop.1 The only access to' the show window was inside the jewelry shop and they only entered said show window to place the jewels which were going to be displayed. The sufficiency of this evidence is challenged. .

The most reliable form of identification is by comparing fingerprints. See the cases of Stevenson v. United States, 380 F.2d 590…