Chap. 414.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4828 of the Code of Yep orl
and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith.

Approved March 21, 1924.

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

Section 4828. Bail by justice.—1. A justice before whom a person
is brought charged with a misdemeanor or a felony, if only a light sus-
picion of guilt falls on him in the latter case, may, pending examination
before him, or upon committing such person for trial, admit him to bail;
provided that in any city where there is a police justice or a civil and
police justice, and in which the justices of the peace have no jurisdiction
to try persons charged with crimes, a justice may admit to bail only
persons charged with misdemeanors before such persons have been
arraigned or tried before said police justice or civil and police justice,
but the police justice or the civil and police justice or the judge of a
court of record in such city may authorize a justice of the peace to admit
such person charged with felony to bail. If the offense be a felony,
and there is good cause to believe such person guilty, he shall not be
let to bail, by any justice, nor shall any person in jail under an order of
commitment be admitted to bail by any justice, except the one com-
mitting him, nor in a less sum than was required by said order.

2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby re-
pealed.