South Carolina Statutes
§ 17-21-40 — Venue where perpetrator of homicide and victim are in different counties.
South Carolina § 17-21-40
This text of South Carolina § 17-21-40 (Venue where perpetrator of homicide and victim are in different counties.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering South Carolina primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Bluebook
S.C. Code Ann. § 17-21-40 (2026).
Text
When an injury is inflicted by any person within the bounds of one county of this State on a person within the bounds of another county and death shall ensue therefrom within this State, indictment, trial and punishment shall be the same as if the homicide had been committed altogether within the county in which the injured person dies. And when the injured person dies without the jurisdiction of this State, indictment, trial and punishment shall be the same as if the homicide had been completed in the county in which the injury causing death was received.
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Legislative History
HISTORY: 1962 Code SECTION 17-457; 1952 Code SECTION 17-457; 1942 Code SECTION 1019; 1932 Code SECTION 1019; Cr. P. '22 SECTION 110; Cr. C. '12 SECTION 146; Cr. C. '02 SECTION 118; G. S. 2463; R. S. 118; 1859 (12) 823.
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