CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN COMMONWEALTH PAYS WITNESSES IN CASE OF MISDEMEANOR (§ 19.2-331)

Payment shall not be made out of the state treasury to a witness attending for
the Commonwealth in any prosecution for a misdemeanor unless it appears that the
sum to which the witness is entitled cannot be obtained:

   (1.  If it be a case wherein there is a prosecutor and the defendant is
   convicted, by reason of the insolvency of the defendant, or

   (2.  If it be a case in which there is no prosecutor, by reason of the
   acquittal or insolvency of the defendant or other cause.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-314; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.