Although a bill of indictment be returned not a true bill the same or another bill of indictment against the same person for the same offense may be sent to, and acted on, by the same or another grand jury. No irregularity in the time or manner of selecting the jurors, or in the writ of venire facias, or in the manner of executing the same, shall vitiate any presentment, indictment or finding of a grand jury.
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-203
Indictments ignored may be sent to another grand jury; what irregularities not to vitiate indictment, etc
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 93 Va. Cir. 169 - Commonwealth v. Rankin (2016)
Most recently applied in 93 Va. Cir. 169 - Commonwealth v. Rankin (April 2016)
Code 1950, § 19.1-158; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
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