JOHNSON v. COM.

Record No. 0579-85.

350 S.E.2d 673 (1986)

Steve G. JOHNSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

November 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thea Rossi Barron, Falls Church, for appellant.

Leah A. Darron, Asst. Atty. Gen. (William G. Broaddus, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: DUFF, KEENAN and COLE, JJ.


DUFF, Judge.

Steve G. Johnson appeals from a statutory burglary conviction for which he was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. He assigns as error the admission into evidence of a bent nail, identified by expert testimony as a lock-picking device that he possessed approximately four weeks prior to the offense.

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