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the prints of two or more fingers, affords evidence requiring no corroboration, that the persons from whom they were made are the same. Let it also be remembered, that this evidence is applicable not only to adults, but can establish the identity of the same person at any stage of his life between babyhood and old age, and for some time after his death.
We read of the dead body of Jezebel being devoured by the dogs of Jezreel, so that no man might say, " This is Jezebel," and that the dogs left only her skull, the palms of her hands, and the soles of her feet ; but the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are the very remains by which a corpse might be most surely identified, if impressions of them, made during life, were available.
