Virginia Laws for the Suppression of Vice

court, or the judge thereof in vacation, at such time, and at such place within such locality as the process may name, and may enter judgment or order as the ends of justice may require.

13. The court, or any judge authorized to act hereunder in vacation, and all officers performing any act or executing any process under this act, are vested with all incidental powers necessary to the effectual execution of the object and purposes of this act.

14. This act shall be construed liberally as to its objects and powers, to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to-wit: that the care, custody and discipline of the child may approximate as nearly as may be that which should be by its parents, and protect the child, where possible, from the stigma of jail and the contaminating influences of associating with criminals.

15. Words in this act importing the masculine gender shall be construed to include females whenever such construction is necessary or proper. 16. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Contributory Delinquency.

Chapter 228 of Acts of 1914.

An act making it a misdemeanor for any person over the age of 18 years to cause or encourage any child under the age of 18 years to commit any misdemeanor; to send a child under 18 to certain places; or in any way to contribute to or cause a child under 18 to be guilty of vicious or immoral conduct, and providing punishment therefor. Approved March 24, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That any person over 18 years of age who shall cause or encourage any child under the age of 18 years to commit any misdemeanor, or who shall send or cause to be sent any such child to, or permit any such child to enter or remain in, any house of prostitution, or any saloon or wineroom, or to any policy shop or gambling place, or to any pool room or bucket shop, knowing them to be such, or who knowingly permits or induces any such child to enter or remain in any such place or in any place. for an unlawful purpose or who knowingly permits, contributes to, encourages or causes any such child to be guilty of any such vicious or immoral conduct, as is herein specified, or who shall subject any such child to vicious or immoral influences, in the manner herein specified, shall be deemed giulty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to punishment by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for a period not exceeding one year, or both.

2. This bill shall not be construed as repealing or modifying or in any way affecting sections thirty-six hundred and seventy-seven, thirty-six hundred and seventy-eight, thirty-six hundred and eighty, or thirty-seven hundred and ninety of the Code of Virginia.

Rape-Definition-Punishment.

Chapter 478 of Acts of 1916.

An act to amend and re-enact section 3680 of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section thirtysix hundred and eighty of the Code of Virginia as heretofore amended be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 3680. Rape; carnal knowledge of a child under fifteen years of

age or a lunatic, or a pupil in any deaf, dumb or blind institution; how punished.

If any person carnally knows a female at fifteen years or more against her will by force or carnally knows a female child under that age or a female inmate of any lunatic asylum who has been adjudged a lunatic or any female who is an inmate of a deaf, dumb, or blind institution who is a pupil therein, he shall in the discretion of the jury be punished with death or confinement in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than twenty years. Gambling.

Chapter 44. An act to prohibit gambling. Approved February 17, 1916. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That it shall be unlawful for any person to bet, wager, or play at any game for money.

Any one violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisoned in jail not exceeding sixty days, either or both.

The circuit or city courts and justices of the peace shall have concurrent jurisdiction in the trial of all cases under this act, and the accused shall have the right of appeal from the decision of the justice to the circuit or city court.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Chapter 445. An act to prohibit the conduct of any game played for money or thing representing money, and to prohibit receiving compensation from those who play at such game for conducting such game, or otherwise, and to prescribe rules of evidence in prosecutions therefor, and for providing penalty for the violation of such act, and to confer concurrent original jurisdiction in such cases upon certain courts in the Commonwealth. proved March 21, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That no person shall conduct or be interested in conducting any game played for money or thing representing money, nor shall any person take off or be interested in taking off any money or thing representing money, from a pool made up by those who are engaged in playing cards or other game for money, whether said take off be for profit or for the necessary expenses of the game, or for any other purposes whatever, nor shall any person receive directly or indirectly any money or other thing of value as compensation for conducting such game, or for furnishing the room or paraphernalia for such game.

In any prosecution under this act, when it shall appear from the testimony of any one or more witnesses, that the accused has the reputation of being engaged in conducting a game of chance in violation of this act, such testimony shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this act by the accused.

Any person suspected of having knowledge of the violating of this act, may be called by the State as a court's witness, and compellable to testify under the same rules of evidence as apply to the examination of court's witnesses in other cases, provided that the benefits, immunities, and penalties of section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-nine of the Code of Virginia shall apply in all respects to such witness.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by confinement in jail not less than six months nor more than twelve months.

The circuit courts of the counties and the corporation and hustings courts of the cities shall have concurrent original jurisdiction with the justices of the peace of the counties and with the trial justices of the cities of all prosecutions under this act.

2. All acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

INDEX

Adultery, How punished

Age of consent raised...

Arrests, How made most effective.

Bawdy Houses (see Prostitution)

Books, Obscene-Publishing, etc., How punished..

CHILDREN-DELINQUENT AND DEPENDENT-HOW DEALT

WITH:

Appeal, Right of

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