Minnesota Statutes 192A.595 – Larceny and Wrongful Appropriation
Subdivision 1.Crimes defined.
Any person subject to this code who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person or from the state or United States any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind:
Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes 192A.595
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Code: means this chapter;
(4) "Commanding officer" means a commissioned officer who is in command of any unit;
(5) "Commissioned officer" includes a commissioned warrant officer;
(6) "Convening authority" includes, in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding or temporarily commanding, or a successor in command;
(7) "Enlisted member" means a person in an enlisted grade;
(8) "Federal active service" has the meaning given in section 190. See Minnesota Statutes 192A.015
- Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
(1) with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person or the state or United States of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to personal use or the use of any person other than the owner, steals that property and is guilty of larceny; or
(2) with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person or the state or United States of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to personal use or the use of any person other than the owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation.
Subd. 2.Punishment.
Any person found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.