STATE v. GIORDANO

No. 50921.

249 So.2d 558 (1971)

259 La. 155

STATE of Louisiana v. Camille GIORDANO.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied August 12, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gravel, Roy & Burnes, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Alexandria, for defendant-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., Harry H. Howard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edwin O. Ware, Dist. Atty., Robert P. Jackson, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-appellee.


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 offense were fingerprints alleged to have been lifted by the police from broken glass removed 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.

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