An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1936 |
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Law Number | 217 |
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Chap. 217.——An ACT for the relief of Edward Meeks. [H B 61]
Approved March 23, 1936
Whereas, on November twelfth, nineteen hundred and thirty, Talley
Stinnett, a Federal prohibition agent, shot and killed Earnest Grant in
Amherst county, Virginia, and was duly indicted for murder in the
Circuit Court of Amherst County, which indictment was removed from
said circuit court to the District Court of the United States for the
Western District of Virginia in which it was tried on January twelfth,
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-one,
resulting in a verdict of guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and punish-
ment fixed at two years and six months in the penitentiary of the State
of Virginia, from which judgment an appeal was taken to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals; and
Whereas, Edward Meeks, then attorney for the Commonwealth of
Amherst county prosecuted said Talley Stinnett in the District Court
of the United States, and represented the Commonwealth in the case
before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and in connection
therewith incurred expenses for costs in the Circuit Court of Appeals,
including the preparation of the record, printing briefs, and for rail-
road and hotel expenses, in the sum of two hundred forty-two dollars
and eighty-one cents, all of which was paid by him out of his personal
funds; and
Whereas, the said Edward Meeks is entitled to re-imbursement for
the amounts so expended by him, but there is no provision of law
under which the same may be paid; now, therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Comptroller be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue his
warrant on the Treasurer of Virginia in favor of Edward Meeks for
the sum of two hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty-one cents to
re-imburse him for funds expended as aforesaid, which said sum shall
be paid out of funds in the State treasury appropriated for the pay-
ment of criminal charges.