FINGER-PRINT EVIDENCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 7

FINGER-PRINT EVIDENCE.

JUDGE DISTRUSTS IT. 6s Teleiraah—Press Associatian-OopyrlsM Melbourne, April 16. The Chief' Justice (Sir John Madden) Jn delivering judgment in a case in which iinger-print evidence was prominent, declared that finger-prints alone were not Bufficient warrant for conviction. The system had not been scientifically proved; it was in absolute opposition to the whole theory of anthropology. Mr. Justice Hodges, Mr. Justice Cussen, and other'members of the Victorian Full Court Bench, held that finger-printa were sufficient evidence.

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