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Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 18

RULE 18. VENUE

(a) Except as otherwise provided by statute or by these rules, offenses shall be prosecuted in the county where the offense was committed.

(b) If one or more elements of an offense are committed in one county and one or more elements in another, the offense may be prosecuted in either county.

(c) Offenses committed on the boundary of two (2) or more counties may be prosecuted in either county.

(d) Offenses committed wholly or in part outside this state, under circumstances that give this state jurisdiction to prosecute the offender, may be prosecuted in any county in which an element of the offense occurs, or in the case of an offense committed wholly outside this state in any county in which the offender is found.

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Committee Comment

Subsection (a) is derived from Art. I sec. 9, Constitution of Tennessee; T.C.A. §40-104; and §40-301 of the Law Revision Commission's proposed code.

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