Shropshire v. Commonwealth

In cases where “goods are sold under a conditional sales contract and the legal title is merely retained for purposes of security, the vendee gets a sufficient property interest to support a conviction of obtaining money by false pretenses provided the other requisites of the offense are present.” Lewis v. Commonwealth, 28 Va.App. 164, 168, 503 S.E.2d 222, 224 (1998) (citations omitted).

The majority accepts this principle of law, but finds the facts insufficient to establish that Shropshire entered into a *42conditional sale contract -with the seller. This holding rests on the assertion that the…