Virginia Code
Va. Code Ann. § 19.2-246 (2026)
Injury inflicted by person within Commonwealth upon one outside Commonwealth
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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 prosecution and punishment for the offense in the courts 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.
Code 1950, § 19.1-221; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2018–2025 · leading case: Gerald, T. v. Commonwealth, 813 S.E.2d 722 (Va. 2018).
Gerald, T. v. Commonwealth, 813 S.E.2d 722 (Va. 2018). “2 (providing for venue where false or fraudulent tax return or document was filed or where offender resides for prosecution of offenses involving tax); Code § 19.2-246 (providing for venue where offender was at time when inflicting mortal wound or other injury upon a person…”
Savonne Demontre Henderson v. Commonwealth of Virginia (Va. Ct. App. 2025). “” Henderson contends that, since the General Assembly amended Code § 19.2-246 in 2005 and allowed for an expanded jury selection in joint trials, the rule of law established in Adkins v.”
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