VARKER v. COM.

Record No. 1223-91-2.

417 S.E.2d 7 (1992)

Michael Wade VARKER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia.

May 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shanon S. Echols, Charlottesville (Law Offices of J. Benjamin Dick, on briefs), for appellant.

Robert B. Condon, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Margaret Ann B. Walker, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: BARROW, BENTON and DUFF, JJ.


BARROW, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction for burglary. The defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. We hold that evidence of the defendant's handprint on the wall outside the room that was broken into and of equivocal statements made to the police was insufficient to support the conviction; therefore, we reverse the conviction.

The defendant was charged with breaking into an office within a building near the University...

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