An Act Providing for the Punishment of Certain Offences Within the Cities, Towns, and Boroughs of This Commonwealth, ch. 79, § 1, 1847 Va. Acts 67, 67 (Samuel Shepherd).
"CHAPTER 79.
An ACT providing for the punishment of certain offences within the cities, towns and boroughs of this commonwealth.
... Sec. 1. "That if any person shall unlawfully shoot at another in any public square ... with intent in so doing to maim, disfigure, disable or kill such person, or to do him some other bodily harm, ... every such offender, his aiders and abettors, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor and shall on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the common jail for a period not less than six months nor more than three years..."
Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed at the Session Commencing December 7, 1846, and Ending March 23, 1847, in the Seventy-First Year of the Commonwealth, 1847 (Richmond, VA: Samuel Shepherd, 1847), 67. Chapter 79—An Act Providing for the Punishment of Certain Offences Within the Cities, Towns, and Boroughs of This Commonwealth, § 1. Passed January 30, 1847.