Duff v. Commonwealth

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

"W. P. Duff was indicted in the Corporation Court of the city of Buena Yista, in October, 1893, under section 3712 of the Code of Yirginia, which provides that, “ If any person fraudulently remove, destroy, receive, or secrete any goods and chattels that have been distrained or levied on, with intent to defeat such distress or levy, he shall be deemed *770guilty of larceny thereof.” He might have been indicted for larceny, and proof of the facts set out in the section just quoted would have been sufficient to sustain a conviction for that offence. This…