Chap. 139.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4768 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the limitation of certain prosecutions. [S B 224]

Approved March 6, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-seven hundred and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4768. A prosecution for committing, or procuring another
person to commit, perjury, shall be commenced within three years
next after the perjury was committed; and a prosecution for a mis-
demeanor, or any pecuniary fine, forfeiture, penalty or amercement,
shall be commenced within one year next after there was cause there-
for, except that a prosecution for petit larceny may be commenced
within five years, and for an attempt to produce abortion, within
two years after commission of the offense. Nothing in this section
shall be construed to extend to any person fleeing from justice, or be
construed to limit the time within which any prosecution may be
commenced for desertion of a wife or child or for neglect or refusal or
failure to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife or child.