Chap. 32.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8991, code of Virginia, 1887
entitled “Name of prosecutor to be written on indictment, &c., for mis-
demeanor when required to give security for costs.”

Approved January 9, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-nine hundred and ninety-one, code of Virginia, eighteen hun-
cred and eighty-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
ollows :

$3991. Name of prosecutor to be written on indictment, and so
forth, for misdemeanor, when required to give security for costs.—In
a prosecution for a misdemeanor the name of the prosecutor, if there
be one, and the county or corporation of his residence, shall be
written at the foot of the presentment, indictment or information,
when it is made, found or filed; and in case the grand jury that
brings in such presentment or indictment, or the attorney for the
commonwealth that files such information, fail to write the name
of a prosecutor at the foot of the presentment, indictment or infor-
mation, then the name of a prosecutor may be entered of record, as
such by the court, on the motion of the defendant, or the common-
wealth’s attorney, at any time before the judgment. And for good
cause the court may require a prosecutor to give security for the
costs, and if he fails to do so, dismiss the prosecution at his costs.

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