Bourgeois v. Commonwealth

In a jury trial the defendant, Bruce E. Bourgeois, was found guilty of grand larceny, and his punishment was fixed at confinement for two years in the penitentiary. We granted Bourgeois a writ of error, on limited grounds, to the judgment order entered on the jury verdict, to consider his challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence and the admissibility of certain evidence adduced against him.

Bourgeois was charged in two indictments with grand larceny. The Commonwealth proceeded on the theory that Bourgeois had obtained money by false pretenses in violation of Code § 18.1-118 (Repl. Vol.…