CHAP. 295.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3793 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to buggery and kindred crimes and punishment
therefor. (H. B. 379.)
Approved March 18, 1916.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section thirty-seven hundred and ninety-three of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Sec. 3793. Buggery, et cetera, how punished.—If any per-
son commit the crime of buggery, either with mankind or with
any brute animal, or have carnal copulation in any manner with
another person of the same sex, he shall be guilty of a felony
and shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two nor
more than five years.