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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57596</law_id><section_number>19.2-246</section_number><catch_line>Injury inflicted by person within Commonwealth upon one outside Commonwealth</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="19.2">Criminal Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="15">Trial and Its Incidents</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Venue</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a mortal wound or other violence or injury be inflicted by a person within this Commonwealth upon one outside of the same, or upon one in this Commonwealth who afterwards dies from the effect thereof out of the Commonwealth, the offender shall be amenable to <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> and punishment for the <span class="dictionary">offense</span> in the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the county or city in which he was at the time of the commission thereof as if the same had been committed in such county or city.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-221; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
