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LEW v. COM.

Record No. 2146-93-3.

457 S.E.2d 392 (1995)

20 Va. App. 353

Barry M. LEW v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Salem.

May 16, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Kristin Shandor, for appellant.

Robert B. Condon, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., Ronald P. Geiersbach, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: MOON, C.J., and BARROW and COLEMAN, JJ.

COLEMAN, Judge.

In this criminal appeal, we hold that the evidence was sufficient to prove the corpus delicti for grand larceny and to prove that the defendant was the criminal agent.

"The rule in criminal cases is that the coincidence of circumstances tending to indicate guilt, however strong and numerous they may be, avails nothing unless the corpus delicti, the fact that the crime has been actually perpetrated, be first established. So long...

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