CODE OF VIRGINIA

PENALTY FOR FALSE SWEARING WITH REGARD TO STATEMENT OF INDIGENCE (§ 19.2-161)

Any person charged with a felony who shall falsely swear or who shall execute
the statement provided for in § 19.2-159 knowing such statement to be false,
shall be guilty of perjury, punishable as a Class 5 felony.Any person charged
with a misdemeanor punishable by confinement in jail who shall falsely swear or
who shall execute the statement provided for in § 19.2-159 knowing such
statement to be false shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 19.1-241.6, 19.1-241.12; 1964, c. 657; 1973, c. 316;
1975, c. 495.