Concurrent venue
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 159 N.C. App. 30 - State v. Perry (2003)
Most recently applied in 250 N.C. App. 449 - State v. Loftis (November 2016)
1973, c. 1286, s. 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) If acts or omissions constituting part of the commission of the charged offense occurred in more than one county, each county has concurrent venue.
(b) If charged offenses which may be joined in a single criminal pleading under G.S. 15A-926 occurred in more than one county, each county has concurrent venue as to all charged offenses.
(c) When counties have concurrent venue, the first county in which a criminal process is issued in the case becomes the county with exclusive venue.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.