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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70100</law_id><section_number>19.2-247</section_number><catch_line>Venue in certain homicide cases</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>Where <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> exists that a <span class="dictionary">homicide</span> has been committed either within or without the Commonwealth, under circumstances that make it unknown where such <span class="dictionary">crime</span> was committed, the <span class="dictionary">homicide</span> and any related <span class="dictionary">offenses</span> shall be amenable to <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> in the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the county or city where the body or any part thereof of the victim may be found or, if the victim was removed from the Commonwealth for medical treatment prior to death and died outside the Commonwealth, in the <span class="dictionary">courts</span> of the county or city from which the victim was removed for medical treatment prior to death, as if the <span class="dictionary">offense</span> has been committed in such county or city. In a <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> pursuant to subdivision A 8 of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Aggravated murder defined; punishment" href="/18.2-31/">18.2-31</a>, the <span class="dictionary">offense</span> may be prosecuted in any <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> in the Commonwealth in which any one of the killings may be prosecuted.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 19.1-221.1; 1973, c. 308; 1975, c. 495; 1996, c. 959; 2002, c. 503; 2015, cc. 632, 637; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, cc. 344, 345.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
