44 Va. App. 574 - Foster v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. “Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall make or draw or utter . . . any check, . . . for the payment of money, upon any bank, . . . knowing, at the time of such making, drawing, [or] uttering . . ., that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank, . . . for the payment of such check, . . . although no express representation is made in reference thereto, shall be guilty of larceny; and, if this check . . . has a represented value of $200 or more, such person shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. In cases in which such value is less than $200, the person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Foster v. Commonwealth

2. “Any person who: 1. Commits larceny from the person of another of money or other thing of value of less than $5, or 2. Commits simple larceny not from the person of another of goods and chattels of the value of less than $200, . . . shall be deemed guilty of petit larceny, which shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Foster v. Commonwealth

3. “A prosecution for a misdemeanor. . . shall be commenced within one year next after there was cause therefor, except that a prosecution for petit larceny may be commenced within five years. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Foster v. Commonwealth