Court of Appeals of Maryland September 6, 1978, [No. 62, September Term, 1977.] (Reed v. State)

Eldridge, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. Murphy, C. J., and Smith and Orth, JJ., dissent and Smith, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Murphy, C. J., and Orth, J., concur at page 400 infra.

The issue in this criminal case is the admissibility of voice identification testimony based on the analysis of spectrograms, commonly described as “voiceprints.