DAVIS v. STATE

No. 46466.

255 So.2d 916 (1971)

John DAVIS v. STATE of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson, Banks, Nichols & Leventhal, Jackson, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen. by Timmie Hancock, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


SUGG, Justice:

This is the second conviction of the appellant on the charge of rape, the first conviction having been reversed by the United States Supreme Court in Davis v. Mississippi, 394 U.S. 721, 730, 89 S.Ct. 1394, 1399, 22 L.Ed.2d 676, 683 (1969), where the Court stated that the only issue before it was whether fingerprints obtained from the petitioner should have been excluded from...

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