19.2-366 - Duty of court in which petition filed; certificate and opinion. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-366. Duty of court in which petition filed; certificate and opinion.

The court wherein such petition is filed shall hear all such testimony as maybe offered, either by the petitioner or attorney for the Commonwealth, andafter the evidence has been heard shall cause to be made out by the clerk ofthe court a certificate of the facts proved, and file with the same anopinion, in writing, as to the propriety of granting the relief prayed for.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-355; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)