Walls v. Commonwealth

Indicted for the grand larceny of two television sets from a cable television company, defendant Charles Walls was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania County and sentenced to three and one-half years’ imprisonment. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court in an unpublished opinion.

We awarded defendant this appeal, limited to consideration of the following assignment of error: “The evidence of value of the property stolen was insufficient to sustain a conviction for grand larceny.”

According to Code § 18.2-95(2), any person who commits simple larceny…