Johnson v. Commonwealth

Opinion

DUFF, J.

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.

On October 16, 1984, at approximately 7:15 p.m., the police were dispatched to Olympic Sporting Goods, Inc. to investigate sounds heard by the police dispatcher over the telephone monitoring device used by the business to enable the police to monitor the store during off…