Ragland v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding as admissible evidence that a defendant attempted to influence the testimony against him because “it tends to show the unrighteousness of the defendant’s cause and a consciousness of guilt” (quoting McMillan v. Commonwealth, 188 Va. 429, 432-33, 50 S.E.2d 428, 430 (1948))
• “Evidence is relevant if it has any logical tendency, however slight, to establish a fact at issue in the case.”
• “A document’s authenticity may be established through the use of circumstantial evidence, where surrounding circumstances establish that the writing is genuine.”
• “Code § 8.01-403, applicable in criminal as well as civil cases, allows impeachment of a party’s witness with prior inconsistent statements after that witness has been found by the trial court to be adverse.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).