Chap. 324.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4902, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, providing when juries shall not be kept together, and when and
under what conditions they may be permitted to separate. [H 67]

Approved March 29, 1944
3e it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty-nine hundred two, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia be amended and re-enacted, as follows:
Section 4902. In any case of a felony when the punishment cannot
be death, the jury shall not be kept together unless the court otherwise
directs. In any case of felony when the punishment may be death, the
court in its discretion may permit the jury to separate, provided that no
objection by either the Commonwealth’s attorney or the accused appears
of record thereto; but no such objection shall be made by either the Com-
monwealth’s attorney or the accused in the presence of the jury.

When the jury are kept together, the court shall direct its officers to
furnish them with suitable board and lodging, when so confined, to be
paid out of the treasury of the State, the expense thereof to be determined
by the court, not to exceed, however, for each juror, one dollar twenty-
five cents for each meal furnished, and not to exceed three dollars for
lodging. And the same amount shall be allowed, in either case, for the
meals and lodging of sheriff, or his deputy, keeping such jury, to be paid
in the same manner. But in no case, shall more be paid for meals or
lodging than usually charged by the hotel or boarding house, at which
the jury 1s lodged.