Barnes v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseThis case arose after a person house sitting the home of her friends found an intruder in the house. Later it was discovered that twenty pieces of jewelry were missing from the master bedroom. After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted guilty of second-degree burglary and for being a first-degree persistent felony offender. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) there was no palpable error in the pre-trial procedure that resulted in the identification of Defendant as the perpetrator or in the in-court identification made at trial; and (2) based upon the testimony that the jury actually heard in this case, the trial court did not err in admitting testimony regarding fingerprints pulled off evidence and regarding the thoroughness of the investigation.
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