Chap. 357.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Vir-
ginia as amended by an act approved March 10, 1920. [H B 305]

Approved March 23, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-nine hundred and thirty of the Code of Virginia, as
amended by an act approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and
twenty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 4930. When executions of sentence to be suspended.—lIf a
person sentenced by a circuit or corporation court to death or con-
finement in the penitentiary ask for time to apply for a writ of error,
the said court shall postpone the execution of its sentence until a
reasonable time beyond the first day of the next term of the supreme
court of appeals, not exceeding thirty days after that day. In any
other criminal case, wherein judgment is given by any court, and in
any case of judgment for a contempt, to which a writ of error lies,
the court giving such judgment may postpone the execution thereof
for such time and on such terms as it deems proper. And in any
case after conviction and sentence, or the execution thereof is sus-
pended in accordance with this section, or for any other cause, the
court, or the judge thereof in vacation may, and in any case of a
misdemeanor shall,.let the prisoner to bail in such penalty and for
appearance at such time as the nature of the case may require. A writ
of error from the supreme court of appeals shall lie to any such
judgment refusing bail or requiring excessive bail.