Chap. 462.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of chapter 16
of Acts of 1877-’8, in relation to trials before justices.

Approved March 6, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen of chapter sixteen, Acts eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven-eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows: |
_ §15. Upon a presentment, indictment, or information of a

felony, for which the party charged has not been arrested, the
presiding judge or justice shall issue a warrant to any sheriff,
sergeant, or constable, commanding him to arrest such party
and carry him before a justice of the county or corporation in
which he ought to be tried, and to summon the witnesses on
whose information the presentment, indictment, or information
was made, to appear and testify before the justice; in no case,
however, shall the sheriff, sergeant or constable take the party
charged before a justice who may have before examined him
for the same offence, but shall carry him before some other
justice of his county or corporation. The justice to whom such
warrant is returned shall proceed in the case as if the warrant
had been issued by himself.