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).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sheets v. Castle
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-03-01· cited 65×
• State v. Gore
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-02-07· cited 4×
• Will v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22· cited 1×
• Aaron Wyatt Will, Sr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-02-22
• Stephen James Kilpatrick v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2021-05-04
• Sh'Kise Fazion Cappe v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-01-16
• Daniel Torres Cruz, Sometimes Known as Daniel Torres-Cruz v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-05-20

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Wright v. West
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-19· cited 1,604×
• Marlowe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1986-08-05· cited 158×
• Harward v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-01-19· cited 81×
• Bond v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-01-20· cited 58×
• Llamera v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-02-28· cited 50×
• Cash v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-02-02· cited 42×
• Saunders v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1974-04-22· cited 39×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-01-23· cited 35×
• Overhead Door Co. of Norfolk v. Lewis
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-01-26· cited 29×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-03-17· cited 16×
• Dodson v. Director of the Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 15×