Lewis v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• reversing the defendant’s conviction where the evidence supported the inference that he intended either to deliver marijuana to a prisoner—the crime charged—or to fraudulently receive money from the prisoner with no intention of actually delivering the contraband
• “[A]ctual possession of the contraband is not required to establish the offense” of attempt to deliver marijuana to a prisoner in violation of Code § 18.2-474.1.
• \[A]ctual possession of the contraband is not required to establish the offense\ of attempt to deliver marijuana to a prisoner in violation of Code § 18.2-474.1.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Parsons v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-06-13· cited 50×
• Bloom v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-02-27· cited 26×
• Bottoms v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-04-30· cited 24×
• Rogers v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-10-06· cited 23×
• Sheng Jie Jin v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2017-02-14· cited 16×
• Logan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-08-03· cited 6×
• Ray Allen Atkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-08-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Roy Mandujano
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-09-17· cited 199×
• People v. Buffum
  California Supreme Court· 1953-04-20· cited 180×
• Barrett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1969-09-05· cited 76×
• Sizemore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-04-21· cited 56×
• United States v. Raymond Derosa, Alfred Ponticelli, Danny Desantis, Phil Bertman
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-03-04· cited 45×
• Granberry v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 45×
• Howard v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-03-06· cited 14×