Involuntary manslaughter is punishable as a Class 5 felony.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-36
How involuntary manslaughter punished
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 9 Va. App. 272 - Keech v. Commonwealth (1989)
Most recently applied in Carroll Edward Gregg, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia (February 2017)
Code 1950, § 18.1-25; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1982, c. 301.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.