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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
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female of previous chaste character, under the age of twenty-one years, for the purpose of prostitution; or

4. For taking away any fenale under the age of sixteen years, from her father, mother, guardian or other person having the legal charge of her person, without their consent, either for the purpose of concubinage or prostitution;

Is in any county in which the offense is committed, or into or out of which the person upon whom the offense was committed, may in the commission of the offense, have been brought, or in which an act was done by the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, aiding, or in being an accessory to the commission of the offense, or in abetting the parties concerned therein.

Sec. 79. When the offense either of bigamy or of incest is committed in one county, and the defendant is apprehended in another, the jurisdiction is in either county.

Sec. 80. When property taken in one county, by burglary, robbery, larceny or embezzlement, has been brought into another, the jurisdiction of the offense is in either county. But if before the conviction of the defendant in the latter, he be indicted in the former county, the sheriff of the latter must upon demand deliver him to the sheriff of the former county, upon being served with a certified copy of the indictment, and upon a receipt indorsed thereon by the sheriff of the former county, of the delivery of the body of the defendant; and is, on filing the copy of the indictment and the receipt, exonerated from all liability in respect to the custody of the defendant.

Sec. 81. 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.

Sec. 82. When an act charged as a public offense is within the jurisdiction of another territory, county or state, as well as this territory, a conviction or acquittal thereof in the former, is a bar to a prosecution or indictment therefor in this territory.

Sec. 83. 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.