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Volume | 1932 |
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Law Number | 259 |
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Chap. 259.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1085 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to duties of courts when a person before it
appears to be feeble-minded. [H B 247]
Approved March 24, 1932
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one thousand and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as heretoiore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 1085. When a person is brought before any circuit or cor-
poration court, juvenile court, justice of the peace, or other court of
justice for any purpose other than an inquiry into his mental condition,
if it appears to the court upon the testimony of one or more qualified
physicians, or of an examiner skilled in making mental tests, that such
a person is feeble-minded within the meaning of the law, the judge or
the justice shall direct an officer of the court, or other suitable person,
to file a petition under this chapter, and the court, pending the prepara-
tion, filing and hearing of such petition, may order the said person to
be detained in a proper place of safety ; or be placed under the guardian-
ship of some suitable person; or committed to the department of the
criminal insane at the appropriate institution, if he be charged with
felony, or to the proper State colony for the feeble-minded if he be
charged with a misdemeanor, for observation, under such limitations as
it may order pending the determination of the mental condition of said
person, suspected of being feeble-minded; except that feeble-minded
white persons not charged with the graver felonies, such as rape,
homicide, or highway robbery, may, at the discretion of the superin-
tendent of the State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded, and the
commissioner of public welfare, be received into the State colony for
minded on regular commitment, and in order that
the superintendent of the State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded
and the commissioner of public welfare may be able to determine
whether or not such cases could properly be cared for in the aforesaid
institution, the presiding officer of the court before which the criminal
person, suspected of being feeble-minded, appears shall transmit to
the aforesaid superintendent of the State colony for epileptics and
feeble-minded and the commissioner of public welfare, together with
the commitment papers, a complete record of any prior criminal history
of the said suspected person, together with a detailed account of the
crime with which the said person stands charged before the court;
and it is further provided, that any person received into the State
colony for epileptics and feeble-minded under this chapter and who
after a suitable period of observation and study by the superintendent
of the State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded is found to be, in
the opinion of the superintendent of the State colony for epileptics and
feeble-minded, a moral or social menace to the welfare of the other
‘nmates of the State colony for epileptics and feeble-minded, or un-
manageable, shall, upon complaint of the aforesaid superintendent to
the said commissioner of public welfare, be transferred to the criminal
department of the Southwestern State hospital or other appropriate
custodial institution to be determined by the commissioner of public
welfare.
epileptics and feeble-