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· 10/21/2008

McEachern v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 667 S.E.2d 343
  • 52 Va. App. 679
  • 2008 Va. App. LEXIS 471

How courts have described this case

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

  • “In Virginia, absent countervailing evidence of an intention otherwise, ‘the wrongful taking of the property in itself imports the animus furandi.’” (quoting Bryant v. Commonwealth, 248 Va. 179, 183 (1994)
  • “To be sure, ‘there is not one case in a hundred where the felonious intent in the original taking can be proved by direct evidence.’” (quoting Skeeter v. Commonwealth, 217 Va. 722, 726, 232 S.E.2d 756, 759 (1977))

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Judges: D. Arthur Kelsey

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