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Volume | 1954 |
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Law Number | 144 |
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CHAPTER 144
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 19-181 and 19-183 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the number of jurors and challenges of jurors in mis-
demeanor cases.
(S 71]
Approved March 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 19-181 and 19-183 of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:
§ 19-181. Jurors drawn or summoned under Chapter 11 of Title 8
shall be jurors as well for the trial of cases of misdemeanor as of civil
cases, and all the provisions of that chapter except the provisions of
§§ 8-193 and 8-202 and the provisions of § 8-204 which directs the compen-
sation and mileage of jurors to be paid out of the county or corporation
levy (which excepted provisions shall apply exclusively to jurors and
juries in civil cases) shall extend as well to jurors and juries in cases of
misdemeanor as to jurors and juries in civil cases. And §§ 8-174, 8-175,
8-178, 8-194, 8-199, to 8-201, 8-205 to 8-208, 8-215 and 8-216 shall apply to
jurors and juries in all cases, criminal as well as civil. * Eleven jurors shall
constitute a panel in the trial of misdemeanors, but the jury therefor shall
be composed of five.
No officer shall be allowed more than one fee for executing writs of
venire facias on the same persons for the same term of court.
§ 19-183. In every case of felony, the Commonwealth shall be allowed
four peremptory challenges, and the accused four.
In every case of misdemeanor, whether on an appeal from a trial
justice or an original trial, the Commonwealth and the prisoner shall each
be allowed * three peremptory challenges.
No other challenges shall be allowed except for cause. All challenges
shall be tried by the court in which they are made.
An Act to amend and reenact § 55-26 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the validity of educational, literary and charitable gifts, etc. 'S 75]
Approved March 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
a That § 55-26 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:
§ 55-26. Every gift, grant, devise or bequest which, since April
second, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, has been or at any time here-
after shall be made for literary purposes or for the education of white
persons * and every gift, grant, devise or bequest which, since April tenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, has been or at any time hereafter shall be
made for literary purposes or for the education of colored persons *, and
every gift, grant, devise or bequest made hereafter for charitable purposes,
whether made in any case to a body corporate or unincorporated, or to a
natural person, shall be as valid as if made to or for the benefit of a
certain natural person, except such devises or bequests, if any, as have
failed or become void by virtue of the seventh section of the act of the
General Assembly passed on April second, eighteen hundred and thirty-
nine, entitled “an act concerning devises made to schools, academies, and
colleges.” Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to give validity
to any devise or bequest to or for the use of any unincorporated theological
seminary.