                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROOF OF OWNERSHIP IN OFFENSE RELATING TO PROPERTY (§ 19.2-284)

In a prosecution for an offense committed upon, relating to or affecting real
estate, or for stealing, embezzling, destroying, injuring or fraudulently
receiving or concealing any personal estate it shall be sufficient to prove that
when the offense was committed the actual or constructive possession, or a
general or special property, in the whole or any part of such estate was in the
person or entity alleged in the indictment or other accusation to be the owner
thereof.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-247; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.