Crump v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the inconsistencies in the testimony of the victim and her mother did not “render the evidence incredible as a matter of law”
• holding that the inconsistencies in the testimony of two witnesses, the victim and her mother, did not “render the evidence” supporting the conviction “incredible as a matter of law”
• holding that the inconsistencies in the testimony of two different witnesses, the victim and her mother, did not “render the evidence” supporting the conviction “incredible as a matter of law”
• drawing inference that \private parts\ in child's testimony referred to genitalia
• “[T]he child’s testimony alone, if believed by the [trier of fact], was sufficient to support [Crump’s] conviction, even in the absence of corroborating physical or testimonial evidence.” (alterations in original) (quoting Love v. Commonwealth, 18 Va. App. 84, 90 (1994))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McBride v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-21· cited 100×
• Cortez-Hernandez v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-04-05· cited 19×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• Higginbotham v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 746×
• Pugliese v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-09· cited 207×
• Gray v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-04-24· cited 185×
• Love v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-03-22· cited 65×
• Moore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-04-24· cited 32×
• Nichols v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-06-07· cited 15×