19.2-295 - Ascertainment of punishment. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-295. Ascertainment of punishment.

A. Within the limits prescribed by law, the term of confinement in the statecorrectional facility or in jail and the amount of fine, if any, of a personconvicted of a criminal offense, shall be ascertained by the jury, or by thecourt in cases tried without a jury.

B. In any case in which a jury has fixed a sentence as provided in thischapter and the sentence is modified by the court pursuant to the authoritycontained within this chapter, the court shall file with the record of thecase a written explanation of such modification including the cause therefor.

(Code 1950, §§ 19.1-291, 19.1-292; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 2007, c. 259.)