DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
§ 53-208, Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, provides that any person sentenced for confinement under the criminal laws of that Commonwealth "shall have deducted from any such [sentence] all time actually spent * * * in jail * * * awaiting trial, or pending an appeal" and "it shall be the duty of the court or judge, when entering the final order in any such case, to provide that such person so convicted be given credit for the...
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