Chap. 50.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4866 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to presentment, information, and indictment. [H B 3]

Approved February 20, 1940

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

Section 4866. An information may be filed upon presentment
or indictment by a grand jury, or upon a complaint in writing verified
by the oath of a competent witness; but no person shall be put upon
trial for any felony, unless an indictment or presentment shall have
first been found or made by a grand jury in a court of competent
jurisdiction, or unless such person, by writing signed by such person
before the court having jurisdiction to try such felony, or before the
judge of such court in vacation, shall have waived such indictment
or presentment, in which event he may be tried on a warrant or
information. If the accused be in custody, or has been recognized
or summoned to answer such information, presentment or indictment,
no other process shall be necessary; but the court may, in its dis-
cretion, issue process to compel the appearance of the accused.

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