19.2-246 - Injury inflicted by person within Commonwealth upon one outside Commonwealth. - Virginia Statutes

§ 19.2-246. Injury inflicted by person within Commonwealth upon one outsideCommonwealth.

If a mortal wound or other violence or injury be inflicted by a person withinthis Commonwealth upon one outside of the same, or upon one in thisCommonwealth who afterwards dies from the effect thereof out of theCommonwealth, the offender shall be amenable to prosecution and punishmentfor the offense in the courts of the county or city in which he was at thetime of the commission thereof as if the same had been committed in suchcounty or city.

(Code 1950, § 19.1-221; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.)