Bateman v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Code § 18.1-96 (1960), the precursor to Code § 18.2-172, “list[ed] two offenses in the disjunctive: one, forgery, and the other, uttering or attempting to employ as true a forged writing”
• relying exclusively on Black’s Law Dictionary to determine the plain meaning of a word in a statute
• defining “flight” as “[t]he common law offense of running away upon an accusation of a crime”
• noting, uttering “is an assertion by word or action that a writing known to be forged is good and valid”
• “The evidence necessary to establish forgery . . . is not the same [as that] required to establish larceny [by false pretenses].”
• reviewing convictions for uttering forged checks

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).