A person convicted of a felony or perjury shall not be incompetent to testify, but the fact of conviction may be shown in evidence to affect his credit.
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-269
Convicts as witnesses (Supreme Court Rule 2:609 derived from this section)
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Wright v. West (1992)
Most recently applied in Sulton v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. (June 2010)
Code 1950, § 19.1-265; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
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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.