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[CITE: 18USC3235]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                   CHAPTER 211--JURISDICTION AND VENUE
 
Sec. 3235. Venue in capital cases

    The trial of offenses punishable with death shall be had in the 
county where the offense was committed, where that can be done without 
great inconvenience.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 826.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on section 101 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Judicial Code 
and Judiciary (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, Sec. 40, 36 Stat. 1100).