19.2-101 - Confinement to await requisition; bail. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-101. Confinement to await requisition; bail.

If from the examination before the judge it appears that the person heldpursuant to either of the two preceding sections is the person charged withhaving committed the crime alleged and, except in cases arising under §19.2-91, that he has fled from justice, the judge shall, by a warrantreciting the accusation, commit him to jail for such a time, not exceedingthirty days, specified in the warrant as will enable the arrest of theaccused to be made under a warrant of the Governor on a requisition of theexecutive authority of the state having jurisdiction of the offense, unlessthe accused give bail as provided in the next section, or until he shall belegally discharged.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-65; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)