Barnett v. Commonwealth

Defendant Curtis Lee Barnett stands convicted of grand larceny after trial on an indictment charging that he stole articles belonging to one George Sharp. The question on this appeal is whether articles that were in Barnett’s possession shortly after the theft were sufficiently identified as articles stolen from Sharp.

Sharp lived in a home in Stafford County located, according to his testimony, on Route 600 two miles after “you turn left off 218 at John Williams Store”. Sharp testified that when he returned from work at about 5:00 p.m. on February 27, 1968, he discovered that the following…