Commonwealth v. Fancy

How courts have described this case

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• general rule that burden on motion to sup press evidence is on moving party
• where gun admitted as exhibit, jury could have found, without expert testimony, gun capable of discharging bullet as required by statute
• the jury could, without the aid of an expert, find that the gun was capable of discharging a bullet because it was loaded
• weight attributed to consciousness of guilt evidence weakened considerably by fact of outstanding warrant, giving defendant additional motive for concealing his identity
• no evidence of defendant’s knowledge of crime or presence at scene
• reasonable for jury to infer that loaded gun capable of discharging a bullet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).