Chap. 321.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1687 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the disposition of insane persons charged with
crime, when restored to sanity, etc.

Approved March 17, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
sixteen hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as io read ag follows:

§1687. When any person, confined in the department for the criminal
insane at the proper hospital and charged with crime, and subject to be
tried therefor, or convicted for crime, shall be restored to sanity, the
superintendent shall give notice thereof to the clerk of the court by whose
order he was confined, and deliver him in obedience to the proper precept :
provided, no person who has been convicted for a crime punishable by
death shall be so delivered until the said superintendent and the superin-
tendent of one of the other State hospitals for the insane, to be desig-
nated by the commissioner of State hospitals, concur in the opinion that
the said person has been restored to sanity. When any person, charged
with or indicted for any offense which may be punishable by death, has
been adjudged insane, both at the time of the offense and at the time
when, but for such insanity, he would have been tried, shall be ordered
by the court to be committed to the department for the criminal insane,
at the proper hospital, such person shall not be discharged therefrom until
the superintendent of that hospital and the superintendents of two of the
other hospitals, designated by the commissioner of State hospitals, shall
be satisfied, after a thorough examination, that such person has been
restored to sanity and may be discharged without danger to others, and
provided such discharge is given upon the consent and advice of the
commissioner of State hospitals and the special board of directors.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed. |