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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 14 - Presentments, Indictments and Informations
Article 1. Necessity for Indictment, Etc.
- § 19.2-216. Definition of indictment, presentment and information
- § 19.2-217. When information filed; prosecution for felony to be by indictment or presentment; waiver; process to compel appearance of accused
- § 19.2-217.1. Central file of capital murder indictments
- § 19.2-218. Preliminary hearing required for person arrested on charge of felony; waiver
- § 19.2-218.1. Preliminary hearings involving certain sexual crimes against spouses
- § 19.2-218.2. Hearing before juvenile and domestic relations district court required for persons accused of certain violations against their spouses
- § 19.2-219. When capias need not be issued; summons; judgment
Article 2. Form and Requisites
- § 19.2-220. Contents of indictment in general
- § 19.2-221. Form of prosecutions generally; murder and manslaughter
- § 19.2-222. Repealed
- § 19.2-223. Charging several acts of embezzlement; description of money
- § 19.2-224. In prosecution for forgery, unnecessary to set forth copy of forged instrument
- § 19.2-225. Allegation of intent
- § 19.2-226. What defects in indictments not to vitiate them
- § 19.2-227. When judgment not to be arrested or reversed
- § 19.2-228. Name and address of complaining witness to be written on indictment, etc., for misdemeanor
- § 19.2-229. When complaining witness required to give security for costs
- § 19.2-230. Bill of particulars
Article 3. Amendments
Article 4. Process
- § 19.2-232. What process to be awarded against accused on indictment, etc.
- § 19.2-233. How awarded, directed, returnable and executed
- § 19.2-234. Procedure when person arrested under capias
- § 19.2-235. Clerks to mail process to officers in other counties, etc.
- § 19.2-236. Where process of arrest may be executed
- § 19.2-237. Process on indictment or presentment for misdemeanor
- § 19.2-238. Summons against corporation; proceedings; expense of publication
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