Chap. 225.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sestion 3938 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relative to duties of a coroner.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-nine hundred and thirty-eight of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3938. Upon notice of a sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious
death, what coroner to act; his warrant.—Upon notice of a sudden,
violent, unnatural or suspicious death, the coroner of the city of Rich-
mond, if the dead body be in the penitentiary, and in any other case the
coroner of the county or corporation in which the dead body is, shall
view the body and make inquiry into the circurstances of the said death,
and after an inquiry had as aforesaid, if facts are revealed sufficient to
create in the mind of the said coroner a reasonable belief that the person
whose body he shall have been called to view came to his or her death by
murder or manslaughter, or by the contrivance, aiding, procuring, or
other misconduct of any person or persons, he shall issue a warrant to
the following effect: ————— county (or corporation of —————_),
to-wit: To the sheriff (or sergeant), or any constable of ————— county
(or the corporation of —————): You are required to summon six
jurors of the county (or corporation) of ————— to attend before me,
a coroner of said county (or corporation), at the dwelling house of
(or at a place called —————-), in said county (or corpora-
tion), at the house of —————, to inquire, upon the view of the body
of ————— (or a person unknown), there lying dead, when, how, and
by what means he came to his death.
Given under my hand this ————— day of