18.2-112 - Embezzlement by officers, etc., of public or other funds; default in paying over funds evidence of guilt.

§ 18.2-112. Embezzlement by officers, etc., of public or other funds; defaultin paying over funds evidence of guilt.

If any officer, agent or employee of the Commonwealth or of any city, town,county, or any other political subdivision, or the deputy of any such officerhaving custody of public funds, or other funds coming into his custody underhis official capacity, knowingly misuse or misappropriate the same orknowingly dispose thereof otherwise than in accordance with law, he shall beguilty of a Class 4 felony; and any default of such officer, agent, employeeor deputy in paying over any such funds to the proper authorities whenrequired by law to do so shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his guilt.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-110; 1960, c. 358; 1973, c. 15; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1979, c.585.)