If any person confined in jail or in custody after conviction of a criminal offense shall escape by force or violence, other than by setting fire thereto, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. The term of confinement under this section shall commence from the expiration of the former sentence.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-477
Prisoner escaping from jail; how punished
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Commonwealth v. Clemons (1991)
Most recently applied in Commonwealth v. Clemons (February 1991)
Code 1950, § 18.1-288; 1960, c. 358; 1962, c. 506; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1985, c. 555.
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