Steven Brently Parker v Commonwealth

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COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA Present: Judges Fitzpatrick, Overton and Senior Judge Hodges Argued at Salem, Virginia STEVEN BRENTLY PARKER v. Record No. 1721-95-3 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA MEMORANDUM OPINION * BY JUDGE NELSON T. OVERTON JULY 2, 1996 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF ROANOKE Clifford R. Weckstein, Judge John Varney, Assistant Public Defender (Office of the Public Defender, on brief), for appellant. Marla Graff Decker, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee. Steven Brently Parker was convicted of grand larceny under Code § 18.2-95 for stealing the handset of a cordless phone unit. He appeals on the grounds that the Commonwealth did not prove that the value of the stolen property was $200 or more, and that the evidence therefore does not support a conviction of grand larceny. "Generally, the opinion testimony of the owner of personal property is competent and admissible on the question of the value of such property, regardless of the owner's knowledge of property values." Walls v. Commonwealth, 248 Va. 480, 482, 450 S.E.2d 363, 364 (1994); Haynes v. Glenn, 197 Va. 746, 750, 91 S.E.2d 433, 436 (1956). * Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not designated for publication. Upon review of the record, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth and granting to it all reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom, we cannot say that the ruling below was plainly wrong or unsupported by the evidence. Accordingly, the conviction is affirmed. Affirmed. - 2 -

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