In a prosecution against a person accused 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 larceny it shall be lawful in the same indictment or accusation to charge and thereon to proceed against the accused for any number of distinct acts of such embezzlements 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 indictment; and it shall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement or fraudulent conversion to be of money without specifying any particular money, gold, silver, note or security. Such allegation, so far as it regards the description of the property, shall be sustained if the accused be proved to have embezzled any bullion, money, bank note or other security for money or items of personal property subject to larceny although the particular species be not proved.
And in a prosecution for the larceny of United States currency or for obtaining United States currency by a false pretense or token, or for receiving United States currency knowing the same to have been stolen, it shall be sufficient if the accused be proved guilty of the larceny 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 false pretense or token, or of receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen although the particular species be not proved.
Code 1950, § 19.1-168; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1989, c. 370.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 14 - Presentments, Indictments and Informations
§ 19.2-216. Definition of indictment, presentment and information
§ 19.2-217.1. Central file of aggravated murder indictments
§ 19.2-218. Preliminary hearing required for person arrested on charge of felony; waiver
§ 19.2-218.1. Preliminary hearings involving certain sexual crimes against spouses
§ 19.2-219. When capias need not be issued; summons; judgment
§ 19.2-220. Contents of indictment in general
§ 19.2-221. Form of prosecutions generally; murder and manslaughter
§ 19.2-223. Charging several acts of embezzlement; description of money
§ 19.2-224. In prosecution for forgery, unnecessary to set forth copy of forged instrument
§ 19.2-225. Allegation of intent
§ 19.2-226. What defects in indictments not to vitiate them
§ 19.2-227. When judgment not to be arrested or reversed
§ 19.2-229. When complaining witness required to give security for costs
§ 19.2-230. Bill of particulars
§ 19.2-231. Amendment of indictment, presentment or information
§ 19.2-232. What process to be awarded against accused on indictment, etc.
§ 19.2-233. How awarded, directed, returnable and executed
§ 19.2-234. Procedure when person arrested under capias
§ 19.2-235. Clerks to mail process to officers in other counties, etc.
§ 19.2-236. Where process of arrest may be executed
§ 19.2-237. Process on indictment or presentment for misdemeanor
§ 19.2-238. Summons against corporation; proceedings; expense of publication