253 Pa. Super. 559 - Commonwealth v. Kloss’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Jurisdiction to try a person on a criminal charge lies only in the courts of the state or county where the crime was committed. Huntington v. Attrill, 146 U.S. 657 , 13 S.Ct. 224 , 36 L.Ed. 1123 (1892). While some evidence of the place of the crime must be offered by the prosecution to sustain a guilty verdict, Commonwealth ex rel. Chatary v. Nailon, 416 Pa. 280 , 206 A.2d 43 (1965); Commonwealth v. Tarsnane, 170 Pa.Super. 265 , 85 A.2d 606 (1952), where there is a real question as to the place, it is reversible error for the trial judge to refuse the defendant’s request to submit that question to the jury. Commonwealth v. Mull, 316 Pa. 424 , 175 A. 418 (1934). And see Commonwealth v. Bighum, 452 Pa. 554 , 307 A.2d 255 (1973); Commonwealth v. Hainds, 448 Pa. 67 , 292 A.2d 337 (1972); Commonwealth v. Tarsnane, supra; Commonwealth v. Wojdakowski, 161 Pa.Super. 250 , 53 A.2d 851 (1947).”

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   e.g. 326 Pa. Super. 73 - Commonwealth v. Duden