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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 4 - Crimes Against the Person
§ 18.2-37. How and where homicide prosecuted and punished if death occur without the Commonwealth
Universal Citation: VA Code § 18.2-37 (2019)
If any person be stricken or poisoned in this Commonwealth, and die by reason thereof out of this Commonwealth, the offender shall be as guilty, and shall be prosecuted and punished, as if the death had occurred in the county or corporation in which the stroke or poison was given or administered.
Code 1950, ยง 18.1-26; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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