Chap. 10.—An ACT to amend the thirty-fourth section of chapter two
hundred and two, Code of 1873, as amended by an act entitled ‘an
act to amend the thirty-fourth section of chapter two hundred and
two, Code of 1873, with reference to the trial of felonies, approved
January 26th, 1874."

Approved January 11, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the twelfth chapter of the Session-Acts of eighteen hundred
and seventy-four, entitled an act to amend the thirty-fourth
section of chapter two hundred and two, Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, with reference to the trial of fel-
onies, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 34. Every person charged with felony, and held for trial
in any court, shall be forever discharged from prosecution for
the offence, if, in a circuit court, there be three regular terms
of such court; and if in a county or corporation court, there
be six regular terms of such court after he is so held without
a trial; unless the failure to try him was caused by his in-
sanity, or by the witnesses for the commonwealth being en-
ticed or kept away, or prevented from attending by sickness
or inevitable accident, or by a continuance granted on the
motion of the accused, or by reason of his escaping from jail
or failing to appear according to his recognizance, or of the
inability of a jury to agree in their verdict.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.