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.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-21
When and where accessories tried; how indicted
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Standefer v. United States (1980)
Most recently applied in 166 W. Va. 153 - State v. Petry (December 1980)
Code 1950, § 18.1-13; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.