CHAPTER 430

An Act to amend and reenact § 53-295, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to jurisdiction for the trial of convicts. 'H 659]

Approved April 1, 1966

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 con-
victs 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 the counties of Goochland and Powhatan,
criminal proceedings against them may be held in the circuit court of *
the respective county or in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond.

In any proceedings instituted in the Circuit Court of the City of Rich-
mond or the Circuit Courts of the Counties of Goochland and Powhatan
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 or the counties of Goochland or Powhatan respectively, as
the judge of * such court may deem proper.

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