Judgment in any criminal case shall not be arrested or reversed upon any exception or objection made after a verdict to the indictment or other accusation, unless it be so defective as to be in violation of the Constitution.
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-227
When judgment not to be arrested or reversed
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Reed v. Com. (2011)
Most recently applied in Donald Keith Epps v. Commonwealth of Virginia (May 2016)
Code 1950, § 19.1-165; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
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.