Castle v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he mere fact that stolen articles are found on the premises of a man of a family or in a place to which others have free access, without a showing of his actual conscious possession thereof, ... is not sufficient to justify an inference of guilt”
• noting that a defendant may be convicted of “knowingly possess[ing]” items “found . . . in a place [to] which he kept the key” (quoting Tyler v. Commonwealth, 120 Va. 868, 871 (1917))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).