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Connor v. People

Citations

  • 59 V.I. 286
  • 2013 WL 3421061
  • 2013 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 31

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 testimony of a single witness is sufficient to support a conviction “even if it is contradicted by the accused”
  • concluding, under similar circumstances, that the failure to declare the value of the stolen property did not prejudice the appellant
  • stating that a conviction under section 2251 requires evidence that a defendant merely possessed a deadly weapon with intent to use it unlawfully, as opposed to actually using the weapon
  • stating that it is error for the trial court to fail to require jurors to declare in the verdict the value of the stolen property in a case involving larceny or grand larceny
  • rejecting argument that a list of deadly or dangerous weapons in a statute is exhaustive
  • stating that a firearm is a deadly weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cabret, Hodge, Swan

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