CHAPTER 429

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-43 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
kidnapping so as to broaden the application thereof and to prescribe
uniform penalties; and to repeal § 18-50 of the Code of Virginia
relating to abduction of certain persons for certain purposes. .

[S 338]

Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 18-43 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows: :

18-43. If any person seize, take or secrete any other person with
intent to extort money, or pecuniary benefit, or if any person take away
or detain, against her will, any female, with intent to defile her, or
cause her to be defiled by another person, or take from any person,
having lawful charge of her, a female under sixteen years of age, for
the purpose of concubinage or prostitution, he shall be punished with
death, or by confinement in the penitentiary for life, or within the discre-
tion of the jury be confined in the penitentiary not less than * three nor
more than twenty years. If any person threaten, or attempt, to seize,
take or secrete any other person with intent to extort money, or pecuniary
benefit, or assist or aid in the abduction or detention or threaten to abduct
or detain such female for the purposes above described, shall be guilty of
a felony * and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confinement
in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than twenty years, or,
in the discretion of the jury, by a fine of not more than five hundred
dollars and a jail sentence of not more than twelve months.

2. § 18-50 of the Code of Virginia is repealed.