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PAGE FOUR . | a VARIOUS DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHEMICAL IN VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE BODY. ALSO ASKED IF BLOWING HOT HUMID BREATH OVER AN UNDEVELOPED “LATENT WOULD ASSIST IN BRINGING THIS LATENT OUT. HARGROVE STATED UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS PROCEDURE WOULD ASSIST IN DEVELOPING LATENT. | LOTT CITED A NINETEEN FIFTYEIGHT MURDER CASE IN WHICH HARGROVE TESTIFIED IN RESPONSE TO QUESTION THAT THERE WAS NO WAY TO TELL HOW LONG A FINGERPRINT HAD BEEN ON A GUN IN THAT CASE. OR REDIRECT EXAMINATION, HARGROVE STATED THAT IN NINETEEN FIFTYEIGHT CASE, CIRCUMSTANCES WERE DIFFERENT, MURDER WEAPON HAD BEEN FOUND IN A ROOM, AND THE SURROUNDINGS DIFFERENT FROM INSTANT CASE. , . ON CROSS EXAMINATION, HARGROVE GENERALLY CONFINED HIS JUSTIFICATION OF OPINION AS TO AGE OF FINGERPRINT ON EXTERIOR FACTS SUCH AS LOCATION OF GUN, NO INDICATION THAT LEAVES, OR TWIGS, HAD BRUSHED AGAINST LATENT, AND LACK OF EVIDENCE OF DUST OR DEW OVER LATENT FINGERPRINT. DID NOT STATE ON EITHER DIRECT OR CROSS THAT THERE WAS ANY SCIENTIFIC METHOD FOR . 2. cryee o> “7 — ae met oe ia 7 ae a Le 2S EES eee 3 < Sear —s? wo ee at ery