Chap. 275.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4473 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to punishment for throwing stones or
other missiles at trains, vessels, motor vehicles or buildings. [H B 417]

Approved March 25, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion forty-four hundred and seventy-three of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 4473, Punishment for shooting at or throwing stones or
other missiles at any train, car, vessel, motor or other vehicle—If any
person maliciously shoot at, or maliciously throw any stones, or other
missiles, at or against any train, or cars on any railroad or other
transportation company, or at, or against any vessel or other water
craft, or at or against any motor vehicle or other vehicles carrying
passengers, or into any dwelling house or other building when occu-
pied by one or more persons, whereby the life of any passenger, or
other person on such train or car, or on such vessel, or other water
craft, or in such motor vehicle or other vehicle carrying passengers,
or in such building, may be put in peril, the person or persons so
offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement
in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years; and,
in the event of the death of any passenger or other person, resulting
from such malicious shooting or throwing, the person so offending
shall be deemed guilty of murder, the degree to be determined by the
jury. If any such act be committed unlawfully, but not maliciously,
the person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
confinement in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than three
years, or, at the discretion of the jury, be confined in jail not to
exceed twelve months, and fined not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than five hundred dollars.