Commonwealth v. Renaud

Identification cards are common currency of everyday life. They are also portable objects that can be lost, stolen, or transplanted by others. The instant appeal arises in that context. After a jury-waived trial in District Court, a judge found the defendant guilty of malicious destruction of property, breaking and entering in the daytime, and larceny over $250. The defendant argues on appeal that the judge erred in denying his motion for a required finding of not guilty made at the close of the Commonwealth’s evidence. He contends that an identification card found at the scene of the crime…