Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 3/20/1981

Commonwealth v. Jennings

Citations

427 A.2d 231
285 Pa. Super. 295
1981 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2342

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holding that, although no testimony was proffered by the Commonwealth as to the dimensions of the weapon, the jury was competent of determining the length of the weapon by the examination of same
determining that firearm barrel length can be established by circumstantial evidence such as sight, feel, or sound
holding jury is permitted to “infer” the length of a weapon by first-hand observation
length of weapon can be determined from what an object “looks like, feels like, sounds like or is like”
“the length of a weapon can be determined from what an object looks like, feels like, sounds like, or is like a firearm”
length of weapon can be determined from what object “looks like, feels like, sounds like or is like”

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Judges: Spaeth, Johnson, Popovich

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