CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINE AND IMPRISONMENT BY COURT LIMITED UNLESS JURY IMPANELED (§ 18.2-457)

No court shall, without a jury, for any such contempt as is mentioned in the
first class embraced in § 18.2-456, impose a fine exceeding $ 250 or imprison
more than ten days; but in any such case the court may, without an indictment,
information or any formal pleading, impanel a jury to ascertain the fine or
imprisonment proper to be inflicted and may give judgment according to the
verdict.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-295; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1999, c. 626.