Chap. 313.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1923 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to causing or encouraging children under
eighteen years of age to commit misdemeanors, etc. [H B 155]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
nineteen hundred and twenty-three of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1923. Causing or encouraging children under eighteen
years of age to commit misdemeanors, et cetera.—Any person over
eighteen years of age who shall cause or encourage any child under the
age of eighteen years to commit any misdemeanor, or who shall send
or cause any such child to go into any place for an unlawful purpose, or
who shall in any way subject any such child to vicious or immoral in-
fluences, or who shall induce, cause, encourage or contribute toward
the dependency, neglect or delinquency of any such child, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a
fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in jail for
a period of not more than one year, or both; but where the offense con-
sists of having or attempting to have intercourse with any female child
under the age of eighteen years, the fact that such female was not of
previous chaste character or had been married may be shown in miti-
gation. This section shall not be construed as repealing or modifying
or in any way affecting sections forty-four hundred and ten, forty-four
hundred and eleven, forty-four hundred and fourteen, forty-five hun-
dred and forty-eight and forty-seven hundred anc sixty-four of the
Code of Virginia. _