Davies v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a court must be able to reach this conclusion “without usurping the jury’s fact finding function” (quoting Lavinder v. Commonwealth, 12 Va. App. 1003, 1005 (1991) (en banc))
• “The requirement that the defendant obtain ownership of the property, rather than mere possession, distinguishes the offense of larceny by false pretenses from the offense of larceny [by trick].”
• “The requirement that the defendant obtain ownership of the property, rather than mere possession, distinguishes the offense of larceny by false pretenses from the offense of larceny [by trick].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).