Court Opinion

ID: 9602489
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:56:01.055072+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:53:58.390177
License: Public Domain

Justice Frye
concurring.
I find it unnecessary to decide, in this case, whether, as the majority states, “the fingerprint evidence, standing alone, was sufficient to *720send this case to the jury.” As the opinion points out, other evidence tending to show that defendant was the perpetrator of the crimes charged in this case was introduced at trial. I agree with the majority that the fingerprint evidence, together with the corroborating evidence, was substantial evidence sufficient to take the case to the jury and to sustain the verdicts in this case. Whether the fingerprint evidence, “standing alone,” was sufficient, substantial evidence to take the case to the jury against this defendant for first-degree kidnapping, common-law robbery, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and nine counts of obtaining property by false pretenses is a question we need not decide today. Accordingly, I concur in the result reached by the majority of this Court, but not the reasoning.