                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWER OF COURT ON APPEAL (§ 19.2-25)

The court may dismiss the complaint or affirm the judgment, and make what order
it sees fit as to the costs. If it award costs against the appellant, the
recognizance which he may have given shall stand as security therefor. When
there is a failure to prosecute the appeal, such recognizance shall remain in
force, although there be no order of affirmance. On any appeal the court may
require of the appellant a new recognizance if it see fit.
		Any person committed to jail under this chapter may be discharged by the
circuit court of the county or city on such terms as it may deem reasonable.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 19.1-24, 19.1-25; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.