19.2-269 - Convicts as witnesses.

§ 19.2-269. Convicts as witnesses.

A person convicted of a felony or perjury shall not be incompetent totestify, but the fact of conviction may be shown in evidence to affect hiscredit.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-265; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)