Legal Opinion
Austin v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided April 10, 2012No. 1107112PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUMPHREYS, Judge.
Sandra Lee Austin (“Austin”) appeals her conviction after a bench trial in the Circuit Court of the City of Charlottesville (“trial court”) of two counts of obtaining money or property by false pretense in violation of Code § 18.2-178. On appeal, Austin argues that the trial court committed reversible error when it denied her motion to strike the two charges because the Commonwealth did not meet its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that she intended to defraud the two complainants at the time she obtained property from them. For the following reasons, we affirm the…
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