Chap. 625.—An ACT for the relief of Mrs. M. B. Hurst from payment of a recog
nizance to the Commonwealth.

Approved April 2, 1902.

Whereas, at the July term, nineteen hundred and one, of the counts
court of Pulaski county, Virginia, Mistress M. B. Hurst, of said county
entered into a recognizance, payable to the Commonwealth of Virginia, 11
the sum of one hundred dollars, conditioned for the appearance of on:
Frank Fortune on the first day of the next term of said court to answer ¢
“certain indictment for felony, whereof he stands charged,” jointly wit!
three others; and,

Whereas, the said Frank Fortune failed to appear on the first day of
the next term in discharge of his recognizance, but joined the regula
army, and was at the said next term of said court, and is now, in the
military service of the United States; and,

Whereas, the said Mistress M. B. Hurst is a widowed woman, in feeble
health and unable to work, and her whole property consists of ten to fif
teen acres of land of the value of two to three hundred dollars, which, i
subjected to the payment of said recognizance, would be likely to render
her a county charge; and,

Whereas, the other three who were jointly indicted with the said Frank
Fortune, and who were charged with the commission of the same felony,
were tried at the January term, nineteen hundred and two, of said court
upon said indictment for felony, and were acquitted by the jury of the
felony; and the jury found, by their verdict, the offense charged in the
said indictment did not amount to a felony, but was only a misdemeanor
of simple assault ; and,

Whereas, no recognizance is required in law for appearance to answer
for the misdemeanor of simple assault: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the said
Mistress M. B. Hurst be, and she is hereby, relieved and discharged from
any further liability on account of the said recognizance, and is hereby
exonerated from the pavment of the same.

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