Chap. 206.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3707 of code of Virginia,
as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section 3707 of the code of Virginia, approved February 28, 1890—grand and
petit larceny defined.

Approved February 12, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-seven {hundred and seven of the code of Virginia, eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, as amended and re-enacted by an act en-
titled an act to amend and re-enact section thirty-seven hundred
and seven of the code of Virginia, in relation to grand and petit
larceny defined—how punished; larceny of horse, mule or ass—how
punished, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3707. Grand and petit larceny defined—how punished; larceny
of borse, mule, ass, cow, steer, bull or calf—how punished.—If any
person steal from the person of another money or other thing of the
value of five dollars, he shall be deemed guilty of grand larceny, and
be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten
years. If any person commit simple larceny, not from the person
of another, of goods and chattels, he shall, if they are of the value
of fifty dollars or more, be deemed guilty of grand larceny, and be
confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten
years; and if they be of less value than five dollars in the first case
or fifty dollars in the last, he shall be guilty of petit larceny, and
shall be punished by confinement in jail not less than fifteen days
nor more than six months, or by fine not Jess than five dollars and
no more than one hundred dollars, or by both. But any person who
shall be guilty of the larceny of a horse, mule, or ass shall be pun-
ished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than three nor
more than eighteen years; and any person who shall be guilty of the
larceny of a cow, steer or bull, shall, in the discretion of the jury, be
confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five
years, or be confined in jail not exceeding twelve months and fined
not exceeding five hundred dollars. ,

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.