CHAPTER 570

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-299.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the fee of an attorney appointed to defend a convict. 7
[H 444]

Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
an That § 53-299.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 53-299.1. Fee of attorney appointed to defend convict.—Whenever
the judge of said court appoints an attorney to defend a convict charged
with an offense that may be punishable by death, or by confinement in
the penitentiary for a period of more than ten years, he may direct that
a sum of money not to exceed * forty dollars shall be paid out of the funds
appropriated in the general appropriations act for criminal costs to the
attorney so appointed to defend such convict as compensation for such
defense, and when such convict is charged with the commission of a felony
other than those above mentioned, the judge of said court may direct the
payment of a sum not to exceed fifteen dollars payable out of said funds.