Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

I took lottery tickets from my job I had every intent on paying the next day I was unable to pay. I had an interview with a officer and told her the truth I then went to the store and paid for the tickets can I still be charged?


Asked on 8/18/17, 6:13 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jonathon Moseley Jonathon A. Moseley

Anyone can claim anything, but they should not. And I think you would be fine in the end.

It sounds as if first you had no intent to "permanently deprive" the store of anything of value.

Instead, it was only a question of WHEN you would pay.

It is perfectly possible to buy something and pay for it later. It is not automatically assumed that payment must be immediate.

The only difficulty is if they try to argue that you made up the claim that you were going to pay later, after being challenged. So you need to be convincing that it was always the plan to pay later.

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Answered on 8/18/17, 7:54 am


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