CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONVICTION OF ATTEMPT OR AS ACCESSORY ON INDICTMENT FOR FELONY; EFFECT OF
GENERAL VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY (§ 19.2-286)

On an indictment for felony the jury may find the accused not guilty of the
felony but guilty of an attempt to commit such felony, or of being an accessory
thereto; and a general verdict of not guilty, upon such indictment, shall be a
bar to a subsequent prosecution for an attempt to commit such felony, or of
being an accessory thereto.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-254; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.