CHAP. 282.—An ACT to allow a credit to persons, convicted of any crime
or misdemeanor and sentenced to a term in jail or the penitentiary,
of all time spent by such person in jail awaiting a trial or pendin
an appeal, or awaiting removal to the penitentiary. (H. B. 108.

Approved March 17, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
any person, who may hereafter in this State be sentenced by
any court or justice to a term of confinement in jail or in the
penitentiary for the commission of any crime or misdemeanor
or in default of the payment of any fine shall have deducted from
any such term all time actually spent by such person in jail
awaiting a trial or awaiting removal to the penitentiary after
trial and sentence or pending an appeal, and it shall be the duty
of the court or justice when entering the final order in any such
ease to provide that such person so convicted be given a credit
for the time so spent; provided that no such credit or deduction
of time shall be allowed to any person who shall break jail or
make an escape.