{"id":767,"date":"2012-08-09T15:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T15:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=767"},"modified":"2013-05-29T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:47:47","slug":"larceny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=767","title":{"rendered":"Larceny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grand Larceny<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CR26-051.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS26051.htm\">Money or personal property with value more than $900<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2501 (05\/29\/13)<\/li>\n<li>CR26-061.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS26-061.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Items stolen with value more than $900<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2501 (05\/29\/13)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Petit Larceny<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CR26-071.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS26-071.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Money or property of some value<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2502 (07\/18\/08)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Larceny from the Person<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CR26-081.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtjuryinstructions.org\/criminal\/MS26-081.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Larceny from the Person<\/a>, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2503 (07\/18\/08)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reporter&#8217;s Notes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Grand Larceny<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Supreme Court explained the definition of grand larceny in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Reed<\/span>, 127 Vt. 532 (1969).\u00a0 \u201cA person steals if he takes property from one in lawful possession without right, with the intention to keep it wrongfully.\u201d\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Id<\/span>. at 538 (citing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Morissette v. United States<\/span>, 342 U.S. 246).\u00a0 The question of criminal intent is for the jury to consider according to all the circumstances brought before them.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Id<\/span>. at 538 (citations omitted).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Larceny requires proof that the defendant \u201cintended to permanently separate the owner from his [or her] property, or at least deliberately act so as to make it unlikely that the owner and his [or her] property would be reunited.\u201d\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Hanson<\/span>, 141 Vt. 228, 232 (1982).\u00a0 \u201cLarceny specifically requires an intent to steal at the very moment the property in question is taken into possession by the defendant.\u201d\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Id<\/span>. at 232.\u00a0 The State need not prove that the defendant intended to steal an item of particular value.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Houle<\/span>, 157 Vt. 640 (1991).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The instructions have a bracketed explanation for fair market value.\u00a0 The discussion of fair market value is not necessary in cases charging larceny of cash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Petit Larceny.\u00a0 <\/strong>When the defendant is charged with petit larceny under 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2502, at issue is whether the property stolen had some monetary value.\u00a0 It should not be necessary for the State to prove that the value of the property does not exceed $500.\u00a0 See <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Nelson<\/span>, 91 Vt. 168 (1917) (evidence showed that the stolen chickens had some value).\u00a0 Compare <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Persons<\/span>, 117 Vt. 306 (1952), where the Court reversed the conviction for petit larceny, and remanded the case for a jury to determine the value and whether it was over or under $50, and where, upon remand to the trial court, the State dropped the charge of petit larceny and charged defendant with grand larceny.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Persons<\/span>, 117 Vt. 556 (1953).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Where the money or property need only have \u201csome value,\u201d the jury need not find any particular value, and there is no need to discuss \u201cfair market value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong>Larceny From the Person.\u00a0 <\/strong>The Vermont Supreme Court discussed the limits of \u201clarceny from the person\u201d in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Brennan<\/span>, 172 Vt. 277 (2000).\u00a0 Mr. Brennan, a hitchhiker who stole money from the purse in the back seat of the car, was not guilty of larceny from the person.\u00a0 The item stolen need not be touching the owner, but it must be immediately within the owner\u2019s control or presence.\u00a0 In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State v. Setien<\/span>, 173 Vt. 576 (2002), the defendant committed the crime of larceny from the person when he ripped a necklace off the victim\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Larceny CR26-051.\u00a0 Money or personal property with value more than $900, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2501 (05\/29\/13) CR26-061.\u00a0 Items stolen with value more than $900, 13 V.S.A. \u00a7 2501 (05\/29\/13) Petit Larceny CR26-071.\u00a0 Money or property of some value, 13 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/?page_id=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/767\/revisions\/1088"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtjuryinstructions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}