                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW AND WHERE HOMICIDE PROSECUTED AND PUNISHED IF DEATH OCCUR WITHOUT THE
COMMONWEALTH (§ 18.2-37)

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.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-26; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.