CHAPTER 346

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-165 of the Code of 1950 relat-
ing to the time an indictment for a felony must be tried.
[S 190]

Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-165 of the Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 19-165. Within what time an indictment for felony must be
tried.—Every person against whom an indictment is found charging
a felony and held in any court for trial, whether he be in custody
or not, shall be forever discharged from prosecution for the offense,
if there be three regular terms of the circuit or four of the corpo-
in which the case is pending after he is
inless the failure to try him was caused:
or by reason of his confinement in a hos-
‘are and observation,

} for the Commonwealth béing enticed or
from attending by sickness or inevitable

of a separate trial at the request of a
ith others for a felony,
granted on the motion of the accused or
‘from jail or failing to appear according

of the jury to agree in their verdict, or
o court held at the regular term or where
or any reason it would be injudicious, in
to have jurors and witnesses summoned
uson shall be specially spread upon the

the pendency of any appeal in any ap-
e included as applying to the provisions