If any person comes into the possession as bailee of any animal, aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel, and fail to return the same to the bailor, in accordance with the bailment agreement, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof and receive the same punishment, according to the value of the thing stolen, prescribed for the punishment of the larceny of goods and chattels. The failure to return to the bailor such animal, aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel, within five days from the time the bailee has agreed in writing to return the same shall be prima facie evidence of larceny by such bailee of such animal, aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-117
Failure of bailee to return animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Tucker v. Com. (2004)
Most recently applied in 62 Va. App. 270 - Darcella Reed v. Commonwealth of Virginia (August 2013)
Code 1950, § 18.1-163; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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