Virginia · Code of Virginia — Title 18.2, Crimes and Offenses
Va. Code (Crimes) § 18.2-37: How and where homicide prosecuted and punished if death occur without the Commonwealth
What this law says, in plain English
A person who strikes or poisons another in the Commonwealth, causing death outside the Commonwealth, is prosecuted and punished as if the death occurred where the injury was inflicted.
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