Jones v. State

ESTABLISHING CRIMINAL AGENCY

The criminal agency of an accused may be proved directly, as for example by his identification by the victim, Thomas v. State, 8 Md. App. 5, or an eyewitness, Pinkney v. State, 9 Md. App. 283, or circumstantially, as for example by his possession of stolen goods.* 1 The identification of an accused by the victim or an eyewitness may be made judicially or extra judicially. A judicial identifi cation is admissible if it was not tainted by an illegal extrajudicial identification or even if there was an illegal extrajudicial identification, upon the State showing by…