Bowman v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the trial court did not err in allowing a witness to make an identification of a person he saw on a videotape
• holding identity of perpetrator was not an ultimate issue of fact
• refusing to consider on appeal the issue of a witness’s ability to identify the defendant in a video because the defendant did not raise the objection at trial
• “‘Ultimate issues of fact’ for purposes of the conviction of a crime are the statutory elements of that offense.”
• testimony of defendant’s father-in-law identifying defendant in video surveillance footage did not implicate ‘‘ultimate issue of fact’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “A lay witness may offer an opinion as to the identity of a person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).