237 Ga. 470 | Ga. | 1976
Appellant was convicted of rape and robbery. He was sentenced to twenty years and ten years to run consecutively. He appeals.
1. The evidence was sufficient to support the convictions.
2. There was no error in admitting evidence of three other similar crimes. All the crimes occurred in the same
3. We find no error in denying a mistrial because an identification officer of the Atlanta Police Department testified that he had taken the appellant’s fingerprints in 1972. Not only did the trial court instruct the jury to disregard the date but three latent prints taken from the scenes of two of the similar crimes were identified as appellant’s from these 1972 prints.
Judgment affirmed.