Stevenson v. Commonwealth

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• noting that the nonverbal assertion was intended to link the accused to the charged crime
• to be hearsay, a person’s nonverbal conduct must be “intended by him as an assertion and offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted”
• where a police officer requested that the defendant’s wife give him the clothes the defendant had been wearing on the day of a certain homicide, the wife’s giving the officer a shirt constituted a nonverbal assertion that defendant wore that shirt on the day of that homicide
• nonverbal conduct may be treated as an assertion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).