Opinion ID: 1133010
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Heading: The sports jacket found next to defendant when apprehended.

Text: Defendant argues that the sports jacket lying beside him when he was found in the crawl space was inadmissible, because there was no showing that it belonged to defendant, or that the hole in the right shoulder was a bullet hole, or whether it had been cleaned since it was taken into police custody. The olive green jacket was reasonably attributable to defendant by the circumstances under which it was found. Its probative value was sufficiently established by the evidence. There was eyewitness testimony that one of the burglars wore a dark sports jacket; that one of the fleeing burglars was shot at and fell; that blood was on defendant's right shoulder when he was apprehended; and, that there was a hole in the right shoulder of the jacket. In the light of this evidence, it is our view that the exhibit was not improperly admitted.