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Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-21 — When and where accessories tried; how indicted
Current through 2026 Regular Session
Part of Chapter 2: Principals and Accessories, Code of Virginia.
Full text of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-21
Statutory text current through the 2026 Regular Session. This publication reproduces the text of the Code of Virginia from the official Virginia Law Portal API published by the Virginia General Assembly's Division of Legislative Automated Systems; it is not the official Code of Virginia.
An accessory, either before or after the fact, may, whether the principal felon be convicted or not, or be amenable to justice or not, be indicted, tried, convicted and punished in the county or corporation in which he became accessory, or in which the principal felon might be indicted. Any such accessory before the fact may be indicted either with such principal or separately.
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