Chap. 539.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “an act to require the
judges of county and corporation courts to set criminal cases for trial,” ap-
proved February 24, 1890, and make it apply to judges of circuit courts.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act en-
titled “an act to require the judges of county and corporation courts to
set criminal cases for trial,” approved February twenty-four, eighteen
pucieedt and ninety, shall be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
tollows :

It shall be the duty of the judge of each circuit and corporation court
to fix a dav of his court when the trial of criminal cases will commence,
and to make such general or special order in reference thereto, and to
the summoning of witnesses, as may seem proper; but this act shall not be
so construed as to deprive the court of the right to proceed with the trial
of any case at the same term at which an indictment is found: provided.
the defendant is in actual custody or out on bail.

2. This act shall be in force on and after February first, nineteen hun-
dred and four.