CHAPTER 338

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-78 of the Code of 1950, relat-
ing to flight, pursuit, and arrest of an accused, so as to extend

the section to cover certain additional situations.
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Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-73 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted, as
follows:

§ 19-73. Flight * ; pursuit; * arrested anywhere in the State.
—If a person charged with an offense shall, after or at the time
the warrant is issued for his arrest, escape from or out of the
county or corporation in which the offense is alleged to have been
committed, the officer to whom the warrant is directed-may pursue
and arrest him anywhere in the State; or a justice of the peace, a
trial justice other than a civil and police justice or a clerk of a
trial justice, other than a clerk of a juvenile and domestic rela-
tions court, of a county or corporation other than that in which
the warrant was issued, on being satisfied of the genuineness
thereof, may endorse thereon his name and official character, and
such endorsement shall operate as a direction of the warrant to an
officer of such justice’s or clerk’s county or corporation.

The authority of any officer of any county, city or town
authorized by law to meake arrests shall extend throughout the
adjoining county, city or town in which it may be necessary to
go, without a warrant, when actually in close purusit of a person
who has committed a misdemeanor in the presence and in the juris-
diction of such officer; and such authority shall extend throughout
the State when in close pursuit of a person sought to be arrested
on the ground that such person has committed a felony in this
State, even though no warrant has been issued.