18.2-478 - Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without setting fire to jail.
§ 18.2-478. Escape from jail or custody by force or violence without settingfire to jail.
If any person lawfully imprisoned in jail and not tried or sentenced on acriminal offense escapes from jail by force or violence, other than bysetting fire thereto or if any person lawfully in the custody of any policeofficer on a charge of criminal offense escapes from such custody by force orviolence, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-289; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1985, c. 555.)