Chap. 321.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4806 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the duties of coroners. [H B 189]

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-eight hundred and six of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 4806. Coroner to be notified of any sudden, violent, un-
natural or suspicious death, or death without medical attendance.—It
shall be the duty of the physician, undertaker, or other person in atten-
dance, to notify the coroner of any sudden, violent, unnatural or sus-
picious death, or a death without medical attendance, and upon notice
of such a death, the coroner of the city of Richmond, if the dead body
be in the penitentiary, and in any other case the coroner of the county
or corporation in which the dead body is, shall view the body and make
inquiry into the circumstances of the said death, and after an inquiry
had, as aforesaid, if facts are revealed sufficient to create in the mind
of the said coroner a reasonable belief that the person whose body he
shall have been called to view came to his or her death by murder or
manslaughter, or by the contrivance, aiding, procuring, or other mis-
conduct of any person or persons, he shall fix a time and place for a
hearing to determine when, how, and by what means the said person
came to his death; provided, however, no such hearing shall be held
unless and until the same be requested by either the Commonwealth’s
attorney, or the judge of the circuit or corporation court, of the county
or corporation wherein such dead body be.