Chap. 258.—An ACT to amend subsections 3 and 28 of section 5888 of the
Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, in order to transfer the county
of Surry from the Third to the Twenty-eighth judicial circuit. [HH B 395]

Approved March 23, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sub-
sections three and twenty-eight of section fifty-eight hundred and
eighty-eight of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Subsection (3) The counties of Prince George, Sussex, Greens-
ville, and Brunswick, and the city of Hopewell, shall constitute the
third circuit.

Subsection (28) The counties of Isle of Wight, Princess Anne,
Surry, and the city of Portsmouth, shall constitute the twenty-eighth
circult.

Chap. 259—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4930 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, in relation to the suspension of the executions
of sentence. [H B 228]

Approved March 23, 1926.

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

Section 4930. When executions of sentence to be suspended.—If
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 for such time
as it may deem proper.

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
suspended 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 mis-
demeanor, shall let the prisoner to bail in such penalty and for appear-
ance 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.