Title 29, Judicial Procedure, Criminal

When a crime or public offense is committed in part in one county and in part in another, or when the acts or effects thereof constituting, or requisite to the consummation of, the offense occur in two or more counties, the jurisdiction is in either or any of said counties.

When a public offense is committed on the boundary of two or more counties, or within five hundred yards thereof, the jurisdiction is in either county.

When an offense is committed in this state on board a boat or vessel navigating or lying in a river, lake, or canal, in the prosecution of the voyage, the jurisdiction is in any county through which the vessel is navigated in the course of the voyage, or in the county where the v…

Subject to section 29-01-33, any person who commits an offense in or against any aircraft while it is in flight over this state may be tried in any county in this state.

Subject to section 29-01-33, when an offense is committed on a railroad train or other vehicle while in the course of a trip, the trial may be in any county through which the train or other public vehicle passed during the trip.

The venue of a criminal action for any of the following offenses is in any county in which the offense is committed, or into or out of which the individual upon whom the offense was committed may have been brought, in the course of the commission of the offense, or in which an ac…

When property taken in one county by burglary, robbery, or theft has been brought into another county, the venue of the offense is in either county.

The jurisdiction of a criminal action for treason, when the overt act is committed out of this state, is in any county of the state.

In the case of an accessory in the commission of a public offense, the jurisdiction is in the county where the offense of the accessory was committed, notwithstanding the principal offense was committed in another county.

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

When an offense is in the jurisdiction of two or more counties, a conviction or acquittal thereof in one county is a bar to a prosecution or indictment thereof in another.

The jurisdiction of a criminal action for stealing in any state, country, or territory, 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 which such stolen property has been brought.

The jurisdiction 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 or out of the state, is in the county where the injury was inflicted.

The jurisdiction of a criminal action against a principal in the commission of a public offense, when such principal is not present at the commission thereof, is in the county in which it would be under this title, if the principal were present and aiding and abetting therein.

The jurisdiction of a criminal action for the violation of section 53-01-19 is in any county: 1. In which any act is done toward the commission of the offense; 2. Into, out of, or through which the offender passed to commit the offense; or 3. Where the offender is arrested.

In those cases in which the sending of a letter is made an offense, the offense is deemed completed when the letter is deposited in any post office or postal receptacle, or delivered to any person with intent that it be forwarded. The person sending the letter may be tried in any…

If any of a series of thefts can be charged as one offense for purposes of grading under subsection 7 of section 12.1-23-05, if each of those thefts involved the use of a credit card, and if the total value of the property or services stolen is at least fifty dollars, venue for t…