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§§ 7104-7112
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
Local Jurisdiction.

2. For decoying, or taking or enticing away a child under the age of twelve years, with intent to detain and conceal it from its parent, guardian, or other person having lawful charge of the child; or,

3. For inveigling, enticing, or taking away an unmarried female of previous chaste character, under the age of twenty-one years, for the purpose of prostitution; or,

4. For taking away any female 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.

Jurisdiction for bigamy or incest.
s. 79, Crim. Proc.

§ 7104. When the offense either of bigamy or incest is committed in one county, and the defendant is apprehended in another, the jurisdiction is in either county.

Proceedings when property stolen and brought into another county.
s. 80, Crim. Proc.

§ 7105. 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, another county. 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.

Jurisdiction in case of accessory.
s. 81, Crim. Proc.

§ 7106. 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.

Conviction or acquittal a bar.
s. 82, Crim. Proc.

§ 7107. 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.

When jurisdiction is in more than one county.
s. 83, Crim. Proc.

§ 7108 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.

Indictment for an escape.
s. 84, Crim. Proc.

§ 7109. The jurisdiction of an indictment for escaping from prison is in any county of the territory.

Stolen property.
s. 85, Crim. Proc.

§ 7110. The jurisdiction of an indictment for stealing in any state or country, or other territory, the property of another, or receiving it, knowing it to have been stolen, and bringing the same into this territory, is in any county into or through which such stolen property has been brought.

For murder or manslaughter.
s. 86, Crim. Proc.

§ 7111. The jurisdiction of an indictment for murder or manslaughter, when the injury which caused the death was inflicted in one county, and the party injured dies in another county, or out of the territory, is in the county where the injury was inflicted.

When principal was not present.
s. 87, Crim. Proc.
§ 7112. The jurisdiction of an indictment against a principal in the commission of a public offense, when such principal is not present at the commission of the public offense, is in the

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