2006 Code of Virginia § 19.2-223 - Charging several acts of embezzlement; description of money

19.2-223. Charging several acts of embezzlement; description of money.

In a prosecution against a person accused of embezzling or fraudulentlyconverting to his own use bullion, money, bank notes or other security formoney or items of personal property subject to larceny it shall be lawful inthe same indictment or accusation to charge and thereon to proceed againstthe accused for any number of distinct acts of such embezzlements orfraudulent conversions which may have been committed by him within six monthsfrom the first to the last of the acts charged in the indictment; and itshall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement or fraudulent conversion to beof money without specifying any particular money, gold, silver, note orsecurity. Such allegation, so far as it regards the description of theproperty, shall be sustained if the accused be proved to have embezzled anybullion, money, bank note or other security for money or items of personalproperty subject to larceny although the particular species be not proved.

And in a prosecution for the larceny of United States currency or forobtaining United States currency by a false pretense or token, or forreceiving United States currency knowing the same to have been stolen, itshall be sufficient if the accused be proved guilty of the larceny ofnational bank notes or United States treasury notes, certificates for eithergold or silver coin, fractional coin, currency, or any other form of moneyissued by the United States government, or of obtaining the same by falsepretense or token, or of receiving the same knowing it to have been stolenalthough the particular species be not proved.

(Code 1950, 19.1-168; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1989, c. 370.)