                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPEAL FROM SENTENCE OF SUCH JUDGE (§ 18.2-459)

Any person sentenced to pay a fine, or to confinement, under § 18.2-458, may
appeal therefrom to the circuit court of the county or city in which the
sentence was pronounced, upon entering into recognizance before the sentencing
judge, with surety and in penalty deemed sufficient, to appear before such
circuit court to answer for the offense. If such appeal be taken, a certificate
of the conviction and the particular circumstances of the offense, together with
the recognizance, shall forthwith be transmitted by the sentencing judge to the
clerk of such circuit court, who shall immediately deliver the same to the judge
thereof. Such judge, sitting without a jury, shall hear the case upon the
certificate and any legal testimony adduced on either side, and make such order
therein as may seem to him proper.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-294; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 2013, c. 615.