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Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-255 — Defendant allowed to plead several matters of law or fact
Current through 2026 Regular Session
Part of Article 3: Arraignment; Pleas; Trial without Jury, Code of Virginia.
Full text of Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-255
Statutory text current through the 2026 Regular Session. This publication reproduces the text of the Code of Virginia from the official Virginia Law Portal API published by the Virginia General Assembly's Division of Legislative Automated Systems; it is not the official Code of Virginia.
The defendant in any criminal prosecution may plead as many several matters, whether of law or fact, as he shall think necessary, and he may file pleas in bar at the same time with pleas in abatement, or within a reasonable time thereafter; but the issues on the pleas in abatement shall be first tried.
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