W. Va. Code § 61-2-6
Homicide punishable within state if injury occurs within and death without, or vice versa
West Virginia · West Virginia Code Chapter 61 — Crimes and Their Punishment · Status: effective
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- W. Va. Code § 61-2-6, Homicide punishable within state if injury occurs within and death without, or vice versa, West Virginia, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2392330
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If any person be stricken, wounded or poisoned in, and die by reason thereof out of, this state, the offender shall be as guilty, and be prosecuted and punished, as if the death had occurred in the county in which the stroke, wound or poison was given or administered. And if any person be stricken, wounded or poisoned out of this state, and die by reason thereof within this state, the offender shall be as guilty, and may be prosecuted and punished, as if the mortal stroke or wound had been given, or poison administered, in the county in which the person so stricken, wounded or poisoned may so die.