Chap. 570.—An ACT providing that when a mortal wound or injury is inflicted
by 8 person within the state upon one outside the same, or upon one in this
state who afterwards dies from the effects of the same outside of the state,
that the offender shall be amenable to punishment, and where he may be
prosecuted.

Approved March 2, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That if a
mortal wound or other violence or injury be inflicted by a person
within this state upon one outside of the same, or upon one in this
state who afterwards dies from the effect thereof out of the state,
the offender shall be amenable to prosecution and punishment for
the offence in the courts of the county or corporation in which he
was at the time of the commission thereof as if the same had been
committed in such county or corporation.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.