Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-39

"Lynching" defined

Code 1950, § 18.1-28; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

Any act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person, which shall result in the death of such person, shall constitute a "lynching."

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