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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55986</law_id><section_number>19.2-223</section_number><catch_line>Charging several acts of embezzlement; description of money</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Presentments, Indictments and Informations</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Form and Requisites</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In a <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> against a person <span class="dictionary">accused</span> of embezzling or fraudulently converting to his own use bullion, money, bank notes or other security for money or items of personal property subject to <span class="dictionary">larceny</span> it shall be lawful in the same <span class="dictionary">indictment</span> or accusation to charge and thereon to proceed against the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> for any number of distinct acts of such <span class="dictionary">embezzlements</span> or fraudulent conversions which may have been committed by him within six months from the first to the last of the acts charged in the <span class="dictionary">indictment</span>; and it shall be sufficient to allege the <span class="dictionary">embezzlement</span> or fraudulent conversion to be of money without specifying any particular money, gold, silver, note or security. Such <span class="dictionary">allegation</span>, so far as it regards the description of the property, shall be sustained if the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> be proved to have embezzled any bullion, money, bank note or other security for money or items of personal property subject to <span class="dictionary">larceny</span> although the particular species be not proved.
		And in a <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> for the <span class="dictionary">larceny</span> of United States currency or for obtaining United States currency by a <span class="dictionary">false pretense</span> or token, or for receiving United States currency knowing the same to have been stolen, it shall be sufficient if the <span class="dictionary">accused</span> be proved guilty of the <span class="dictionary">larceny</span> of national bank notes or United States treasury notes, certificates for either gold or silver coin, fractional coin, currency, or any other form of money issued by the United States government, or of obtaining the same by <span class="dictionary">false pretense</span> or token, or of receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen although the particular species be not proved.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-168; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1989, c. 370.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
