Richardson v. Commonwealth

UPON REHEARING EN BANC

COLEMAN, Judge.

This criminal appeal involves the construction and applicability of the “single larceny doctrine.” The issue is whether the theft of two purses, which thefts occurred at or about the same time and from the same room, was a single larceny as a matter of law or whether the fact finder reasonably could have determined that two larcenies had occurred.

David Eric Richardson was convicted of two counts of grand larceny and two counts of felonious petit larceny. On appeal, Richardson contends that he was guilty of only a single act of larceny, not four separate…