Acey v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that larceny statute “did nothing more than make the punishment for larceny of a firearm more severe than that for petit larcenies” and that the “definition of larceny remains unaffected”
• analyzing the gravamen of an offense in considering “the unit of prosecution by which the state may assess punishment”
• finding simultaneous possession of multiple firearms does not justify multiple convictions for possession because the possession of a firearm by a felon is, of itself, the dangerousness that is the gravamen of the offense of possession
• “Whether the felon bears one or one hundred firearms, the felon is ‘dangerously armed.’”
• “If the possession of a firearm by a felon is, of itself, the dangerous act, the number of weapons with which a felon is armed becomes irrelevant. Whether the felon bears one or one hundred firearms, the felon is ‘dangerously armed.’”
• finding \no appreciable lapse of time\ between larcenous acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).