Hoyt v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing conviction for abduction where the defendant merely told the victim, “give me the money”
• reversing conviction for abduction where the defendant merely told the victim, \give me the money\
• discussing factors used in other jurisdictions and comparing them with factors employed in prior Virginia case law
• considering “whether the detention . . . occurred during the commission of a separate offense” (emphasis added)
• reversing conviction for abduction because the defendant’s act of detaining a convenience store employee “for a few moments by threatening him with a gun and forc[ing him] to move ... did no more than was necessary to accomplish the robbery”
• “Finally, the evidence does not support an inference that Hoyt detained and moved [the clerk] in order to avoid the detection of the robbery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).