Chap. 399.—An ACT fixing the penalty for writing or composing and sending or
procuring the sending of letters or inscribed communications threatening to
kill or do bodily harm.

Approved March 16, 1908. -

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if any
person write or compose and also send or procure the sending of any
letter or inscribed communication, so written or composed, whether such
letter or communication be signed or anovmous, to any person, con-
taining a threat to kill or do bodily injury to the person to whom such
letter or communication is sent, or a threat to kill or do bodily injury to
any member of the family of the person to whom such letter or com-
munication is sent, the person so writing or composing and so sending
or procuring the sending of such letter or communication shall be con-
fined in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding five years, or, in the
discretion of the jury, shall be confined in jail not less than thirty days,
or be fined not less than fifty dollars.