CHAP. 273. —An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5019 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. . €H B 309)
Approved March 19, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five thousand and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 5019. When term of confinement to commence; what credit
to be allowed.—The term of confinement in jail or in the penitentiary
for the commission of a crime shall commence and be computed from
the date of the judgment; but any person who may hereafter be sen-
tenced by any-court or justice to a term of confinement in jail for
the commission of a crime, or in default of the payment of a fine,
shall have deducted from any such term all time actually spent by
such person in jail awaiting trial, or pending on appeal, and it shall
be the duty of the court or justice when entering the final order in
any such case to provide that such person so convicted be given credit
for the time so spent. No such credit, however, shall be given to
any person who shall break jail or make an escape.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its
passage.