Chap. 393.-—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4931 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to writs of error. [H B 130]

Approved March 25, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-nine hundred and thirty-one of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4931. A writ of error shall lie in a criminal case to the
judgment of a circuit court or the judge thereof, or of a corporation
court, or of a hustings court, from the supreme court of appeals. Ii
shall lie in any such case for the accused, and if the case be for the
violation of any law relating to the State revenue, it shall lie alsc
for the Commonwealth. And a writ of error shall also lie for any city
or town to the judgment of any circuit, corporation or hustings court.
from the supreme court of appeals, declaring any ordinance of such
city or town to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, except where
the violation of any such ordinance is made a misdemeanor by State
statute.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.

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