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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 17-21-10: Venue where person causes injury within limits of State and death occurs elsewhere.

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  1. Title 17 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURES
  2. CHAPTER 21 Venue

When any person shall be struck, wounded, poisoned or otherwise injured or ill-treated within the limits of this State and shall die thereof beyond the limits of this State, whether on the high seas or elsewhere, the person so striking, wounding, poisoning or otherwise causing death as aforesaid shall be subject to indictment, trial and punishment in the county in which the stroke, wound, poisoning or other injury or ill-treatment was committed, in all respects the same as if the death had occurred in such county.

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