Chap. 225.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend
and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3385 of the
Code of Virginia, so as to authorize the signing of bills of exception, either
in term time or vacation, approved February 15, 1901, so as to make the same
apply to criminal as well as civil cases, approved December 31, 1903.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-three hundred and eighty-five, of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§3385. Bill of exceptions.—In the trial of a case at law, in which an
appeal, writ of error or supersedeas lies to a higher court, a party may
except to any opinion of the court, and tender a bill of exceptions, which,
if the truth of the case be fairly stated therein, the judge shall sign, and
it shall be a part of the record of the case. Any bills of exceptions may
be tendered to the judge, and signed by him, either during the term
at which the opinion of the court is announced, to which exception is
taken, or within thirty days after the end of such term, either in term
time or in vacation, whether another term of the said court has inter-
vened or not, or at such other time as the parties, by consent entered
of record, may agree upon, and any bills of exceptions so tendered to
and signed by the judge, as aforesaid, either in term time or in vacation,
shall be a part of the record of the case. The same rule shall apply
when cases are heard or opinions are rendered in vacation, in which
case the party excepting shall have thirty days from the day that such
opinion is rendered. This act shall apply to criminal cases as well as
to civil cases.

2. Any and all bills of exception in any case, in which final judg-
ment has not been-rendered by an appellate court at the time that this
act goes into effect, which may have been signed by the judge within
the time and in the manner herein prescribed, shall be deemed and
treated as a part of the record of such case.