Title 19, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

19-301. All offenders liable to punishment. (1) Jurisdiction – venue. Every person is liable to punishment by the laws of this state, for a public offense committed by him therein, except where it is by law cognizable exclusively in the courts of the United States. Evidence that …

19-302. Offenses commenced without the state. When the commission of a public offense, commenced without the state is consummated within its boundaries, the defendant is liable to punishment therefor in this state, though he was out of the state at the time of the commission of t…

19-304. Offenses committed in different counties. (1) When a public offense is committed in part in one (1) county and in part in another, or the acts or effects thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation of the offense occur in two (2) or more counties, the venue is i…

19-305. Offenses committed on or near county boundaries. When a public offense is committed on the boundary of two (2) or more counties, or within five hundred (500) yards thereof, if the place where the crime is committed cannot be ascertained with reasonable certainty by the la…

19-306. Offenses committed on boats, vessels, trains, motor vehicles or aircraft. When an offense is committed in this state, on board a boat, vessel, railroad train, motor vehicle or aircraft, the venue is in the county through which the boat, vessel, railroad train, motor vehic…

19-307. KIDNAPPING and similar offenses. In any case where a person: 1. Seizes, confines, inveigles or kidnaps another, with intent to cause him, without authority of law, to be secretly confined or imprisoned within this state, or to be sent out of this state, or in any way held…

19-308. Bigamy or incest. When the offense either of bigamy or incest is committed in one county, and the defendant is apprehended in another, the venue is in either county.

19-309. Stolen property carried from county to county. When property taken in one county by burglary, robbery, or theft has been brought into another, the venue of the offense is in either county. But, if at any time before the conviction of the defendant in the latter, he is ind…

19-310. Escape from prison. The venue of a criminal action for escaping from prison is in any county of the state.

19-311. Bringing stolen property into the state. The venue of a criminal action for stealing, in any other state, the property of another, or receiving it, knowing it to have been stolen, and bringing the same into this state, is in any county into or through which such stolen pr…

19-312. Murder or manslaughter. The venue of a criminal action for murder or manslaughter, when the injury which caused the death was inflicted in one county and the party injured dies in another county or out of the state, is in the county where the injury was inflicted.

19-313. Venue over accessories. In the case of an accessory in the commission of a public offense, the venue is in the county where the offense of the accessory was committed, notwithstanding the principal offense was committed in another county.

19-314. Venue over absent principal. The venue of a criminal action against a principal in the commission of a public offense, when such principal is not present at the commission of the principal offense, is in the same county it would be under this code if he were so present an…

19-315. Conviction or acquittal in another state. When an act charged as a public offense, is within the venue of another state, territory, or country, as well as of this state, a conviction or acquittal thereof in the former is a bar to the prosecution or indictment therefor in …

19-316. Conviction or acquittal in another county. When an offense is within the venue of two (2) or more counties, a conviction or acquittal thereof in one county is a bar to a prosecution or indictment therefor in another.