CHAPTER 410
AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act toincorporate the City
of Danville’, approved February 17, 1890, by adding a sec-
tion in Chapter V numbered 7-a, relating to trial of mis-
demeanors by police justice in absence of accused.
[ H 677 ]
Approved April 5, 1950
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That an act entitled “An Act to incorporate the City of
Danville’, approved February 17, 1890, be amended by adding
a section in Chapter V numbered 7-a, as follows:
J-a. Any warrant charging any misdemeanor and re-
turnable before the police justice of the City of Danville, upon
which the accused has been summoned or recognized to appear
before such police justice, and shall fail to appear in response
to said summons or recognizance, may be tried by such police
justice as if the accused had appeared and pleaded not guilty.