429 Pa. Super. 103 - Commonwealth v. McPhail’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
November 1997
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Anderson · Kremer v. Grant · Shiomos v. STATE EMP. RETIREMENT BD. · Commonwealth v. Hude · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Chatary v. Nailon
Most-quoted passages
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“It is a fundamental precept of law that “ ‘the court has no jurisdiction of the offense unless it occurred within the county of trial ... ’ ” The locus of a crime is always in issue, because the court has no jurisdiction over an offense unless it occurred within the county of trial or unless, by some statute, it need not. For a county to take jurisdiction over a criminal case, some overt act involved in that crime must have occurred within that county. Moreover, in order to base jurisdiction on an overt act, the act must have been essential to the crime, an act which is merely incidental to the crime is not sufficient. We must also look to the nature of the offense and the elements thereof to determine whether the crime was sufficiently related to the locus where the defendant is being prosecuted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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