20-68 - Appeal. - Virginia Statutes

§ 20-68. Appeal.

The person accused shall have the same right of appeal as provided by law inother similar cases; provided that any order of court requiring support of aspouse or children shall remain in full force and effect until reversed ormodified by judgment of a superior court, and in the interim the order shallbe enforceable by the court entering it and the court may punish forviolation of the order as for contempt. After the judgment of conviction andentry of order of support from which no appeal is taken the hearing in theappellate court on an appeal from any subsequent order, modification oramendment shall be restricted to the particular matter or order appealed from.

(1944, p. 212; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 1937c; 1974, c. 464.)