Chap. 538.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3890 of the code of Virginia,
in relation to offences committed without and made punishable within the
state where prosecuted, and making liable to punishment persons commit-
ting robbery beyond the state and bringing the stolen property within the
same.

Approved February 29, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-eight hundred and ninety of the code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 3890. Offences committed without and made punishable within
the state, where prosecuted. Prosecution for offences committed
wholly or in part without and made punishable within this state
may be in any county or corporation in which the offender is found
or to which he is sent by any judge, justice, or court; and if any
person shal! commit larceny or robbery beyond the jurisdiction of this
state and bring the stolen property into the same, he shall be liable
to proscution and punishment for his offence in any county or cor-
poration in which he may be found asif the same had been wholly
committed therein.

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