Case Name: Davis v. Mississippi
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1968-10-14
Citations: 393 U.S. 821
Docket Number: No. 60
Parties: Davis v. Mississippi.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 393
Pages: 821–821

Head Matter:
No. 60,
Misc.
Davis v. Mississippi.
Jack Greenberg, Michael Meltsner, Melvyn Zarr, Anthony G. Amsterdam, and Jack Young for petitioner.
Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, and G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Opinion:
Sup. Ct. Miss. Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted limited to the first question presented by the petition which reads as follows: "Whether the introduction into evidence at petitioner's criminal trial of his fingerprints, taken as a result of petitioner's illegal arrest, violated petitioner's rights, under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?" Case transferred to appellate docket.