Steven Brently Parker v Commonwealth

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Judges Fitzpatrick, Overton and Senior Judge Hodges
Argued at Salem, Virginia
STEVEN BRENTLY PARKER MEMORANDUM OPINION* BY
v. 	Record No. 1721-95-3 	JUDGE NELSON T. OVERTON
JULY 2, 1996
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF ROANOKE
Clifford R. Weckstein, Judge
John Varney, Assistant Public Defender
(Office of the Public Defender, on brief),
for appellant.
Marla Graff Decker, Assistant Attorney
General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney
General, on brief), for appellee.
*Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not
designated for publication.
Steven Brently Parker was convicted of grand larceny under
Code § 18.2-95 for stealing the handset of a cordless phone unit.
He appeals on the grounds that the Commonwealth did not prove
that the value of the stolen property was $200 or more, and that
the evidence therefore does not support a conviction of grand
larceny.
"Generally, the opinion testimony of the owner of personal
property is competent and admissible on the question of the value
of such property, regardless of the owner's knowledge of property
values." 	Walls v. Commonwealth, 248 Va. 480, 482, 450 S.E.2d
363, 364 (1994); Haynes v. Glenn, 197 Va. 746, 750, 91 S.E.2d
433, 436 (1956).

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Upon review of the record, construing the evidence in the
light most favorable to the Commonwealth and granting to it all
reasonable inferences fairly deducible therefrom, we cannot say
that the ruling below was plainly wrong or unsupported by the
evidence.
Accordingly, the conviction is affirmed.
Affirmed.