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CHAPTER 503 An Act to amend and reenact § 19.2-247 of the Code of Virginia, relating to venue in certain homicide cases. [S 357] Approved April 5, 2002

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19.2-247 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 19.2-247. Venue in certain homicide cases.

Where evidence exists that a homicide has been committed either within or without this Commonwealth, under circumstances which make it unknown where such crime was committed, the offense shall be amenable to prosecution in the courts of the county or city where the body of the victim may be found or, if the victim was removed from the Commonwealth for medical treatment prior to death and died outside the Commonwealth, in the courts of the county or city from which the victim was removed for medical treatment prior to death, as if the offense has been committed in such county or city. In a prosecution for capital murder pursuant to subdivision 8 of § 18.2-31, the offense may be prosecuted in any jurisdiction in the Commonwealth in which any one of the killings may be prosecuted.