BARROW, Judge.
In this criminal appeal we consider the meaning of the phrase "temporarily unoccupied" contained in Code § 18.2-77 (arson). We hold that a dwelling referred to in that section as "temporarily unoccupied" is one that is currently uninhabited, not one from which its occupants are merely absent at the time it is burned. Thus, when the defendant burned the house in which he and others lived, he was guilty of a Class 2 felony, rather than a Class 3...
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