Montgomery v. Commonwealth

Robert Montgomery, III (defendant), was convicted in a non-jury trial of grand larceny. By judgment entered May 23, 1979, the circuit court imposed a suspended sentence of 12 months in jail. We granted a writ to determine whether the evidence linking defendant to the crime is sufficient to support his conviction. Finding the evidence sufficient to convince a reasonable trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant committed the larceny, we affirm.

The essential facts are undisputed.

One day in mid-September 1978, Mrs. Virginia Fedonchuk noticed an antique rocking chair in the window of…