2006 Code of Virginia § 18.2-457 - Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled
18.2-457. Fine and imprisonment by court limited unless jury impaneled.
No court shall, without a jury, for any such contempt as is mentioned in thefirst class embraced in 18.2-456, impose a fine exceeding $250 or imprisonmore than ten days; but in any such case the court may, without anindictment, information or any formal pleading, impanel a jury to ascertainthe fine or imprisonment proper to be inflicted and may give judgmentaccording to the verdict.
(Code 1950, 18.1-295; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1999, c. 626.)
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