Chap. 412.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3 of an act entitled “An
act to define a ‘mob’, and a ‘lynching’; to provide for the punishment of
persons composing a ‘mob,’ the actions of which result in the injury or death
of another person; to prescribe penalties therefor; to provide for the recovery
-of damages therefor from any person or persons composing the mob; to

_ prescribe the jurisdiction of courts in actions and prosecutions under the
provisions of this act”, approved March 14, 1928; so as to prescribe penalties

for simple assault and battery and for certain felonies. [fH B 142]

Approved April 1, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That eee
three of an act entitled “An act to define a ‘mob’ and a ‘lynching’ ;
provide for the punishment of persons composing a ‘mob’, the stot
of which result in the injury or death of another person; to prescribe
penalties therefor; to provide for the recovery of damages therefor
from any person or persons composing the mob; to prescribe. the juris-
diction of courts in actions and prosecutions under the provisions of
this act”, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3. Any and every person composing a: “mob” which shall
commit a simple assault and/or battery, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and punished as provided for by section forty-seven hundred
and eighty-two of the Code of Virginia; and any and every person
composing a “mob” which shall maliciously or unlawfully shoot, stab,
cut or wound any person, or by any means cause him bodily injury. with
intent to maim, disable, disfigure or kill him, shall be guilty of a felony
and upon conviction shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less
than one year nor more than ten years; provided, however, that if
such injury shall result in the death of such person, each and every
principal and accessory of such “‘mob”, and accessory thereto, shall be
guilty of murder, and upon conviction, ghal be fpttietaves, as phowided
in ‘aa two of thie act.