Plummer v. Commonwealth

Joseph Plummer appeals his conviction in the court below under an indictment which charged that he “did unlawfully and feloniously have in his possession a certain tool, to-wit, an iron crowbar, known as a burglarious tool, with intent feloniously therewith, to commit burglary”.

On December 14, 1967, about 9:45 P. M., two Norfolk policemen responded to a burglar alarm which emanated from the Norfolk Brass and Copper Company. Defendant, a former employee of the company, was apprehended as he crouched beside a trash dumpster. There was found on the ground between his legs a crowbar measuring…