CHAPTER 4

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-295, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to jurisdiction for the trial of convicts.
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Approved February 5, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 53-295, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

_ § 58-295. All criminal proceedings against convicts in the peniten-
tiary shall be in the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond; but when
convicts are employed upon any work of public or private improvement
in any county in the State the criminal proceedings against them may be
in the circuit court of the county in which the convict is so employed or
in the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond; provided that as to convicts
held in the State penal institutions in Goochland county, criminal pro-
ceedings against them may be held in the circuit court of Goochland
county or in the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond. .

In any proceedings instituted in the Circuit Court of the city of
Richmond under the provisions of this section the court may be convened
and such proceedings conducted at such place or places within the limits
of the city of Richmond as the judge of the court may deem proper.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.