Tyler v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE POFF

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The dispositive issue framed in this appeal from convictions of statutory burglary and grand larceny is whether the evidence was sufficient to identify the appellant as the criminal agent.

Convicted of both offenses in a bench trial conducted in the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria, William Lee Tyler was sentenced to serve ten years in prison for each conviction. The two terms were fixed to run concurrently with five of the ten years suspended during good behavior. Finding “no reasonable hypothesis of innocence flowed from the…