                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PERSONS UNDER CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IN THIS COMMONWEALTH AT TIME OF REQUISITION
(§ 19.2-105)

If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against such person under the laws
of this Commonwealth and is still pending, the Governor, in his discretion,
either may surrender him on demand of the executive authority of another state
or hold him until he has been tried and discharged or convicted and punished in
this Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-69; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.