Section 10.42 Hair

• Library: Criminal Practice 2012 Supp

2. (§10.42) Hair

In State v. Marlow, 888 S.W.2d 417 (Mo. App. W.D. 1994), the defendant’s objection to the admission of photographic slides that compared the defendant’s hair to hair of the person who committed the rape—for which the defendant was charged—was properly overruled. The expert’s testimony about the possibility that hair found at the scene of the crime was the defendant’s, along with...