18 U.S.C. § 3238 — Offenses not committed in any district
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 110 words · no verdicts yet
Offenses committed on the high seas or outside every state or district are tried where an offender is arrested or first brought. If no offender reaches a district, the case may be filed where an offender last lived, or in the District of Columbia if that is unknown.
All offenses begun or committed on the high seas or elsewhere outside the jurisdiction of any particular State or district must be tried in the district where the offender, or one of two or more joint offenders, is arrested or first brought. If none is arrested or brought into a district, an indictment or information may be filed in the district of the offender’s last known residence, or that of one of the joint offenders. If no such residence is known, it may be filed in the District of Columbia.
The trial of all offenses begun or committed upon the high seas, or elsewhere out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, shall be in the district in which the offender, or any one of two or more joint offenders, is arrested or is first brought; but if such offender or offenders are not so arrested or brought into any district, an indictment or information may be filed in the district of the last known residence of the offender or of any one of two or more joint offenders, or if no such residence is known the indictment or information may be filed in the District of Columbia.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 826; Pub. L. 88–27, May 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 48.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 826
- 1963Amended · Pub. L. 88-27 · 77 Stat. 48
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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