SMITH v. COM.

Record No. 780171.

248 S.E.2d 805 (1978)

Peter Daniel SMITH v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Rogers, III, Hampton, for appellant.

Todd E. LePage, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before I'ANSON, C. J., and CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN, POFF and COMPTON, JJ.


HARRISON, Justice.

In this appeal by Peter Daniel Smith of his conviction of grand larceny, he alleges that the Commonwealth failed to establish an unbroken chain of possession of certain exhibits which supplied a basis for the opinion testimony of an expert witness.

On the afternoon of January 26, 1977, Mrs. Mary L. Brooks returned to her dwelling in Gloucester and found that the house had been ransacked. Numerous items of personal property and approximately...

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