If any person, armed with a deadly weapon, shall enter any banking house, in the daytime or in the nighttime, with intent to commit larceny of money, bonds, notes, or other evidence of debt therein, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-93
Entering bank, armed, with intent to commit larceny
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 10 Va. App. 283 - Johns v. Commonwealth (1990)
Most recently applied in 61 Va. App. 261 - Johnathon Lane Justiss, a/k/a Jonathan Lane Justiss v. Commonwealth of Virginia (December 2012)
Code 1950, § 18.1-90; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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