 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...declare, that an act done in Virginia [another State], by a citizen of Virginia, shall be criminal and punishable in this State ; our penal laws can only...to the limits of this State, except as to our own citizens."4 A case before some of the judges of New Yorkgoes apparently to the full extent, that the... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 922 pages
...declare that an act done in Virginia [another State], by a citizen of Virginia, shall be criminal and punishable in this State; our penal laws can only...limits of this State, except as to our own citizens." 3 On the other hand, a case before sonic of the New York judges goes apparently to the extent that... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - Liability (Law) - 1915 - 844 pages
...This state cannot declare that an act done in Virginia by a citizen of Virginia shall be criminal and punishable in this state. Our penal laws can only...Legislature could enact laws for the punishment of offences committed in Virginia, still this clause only extends by implication to acts done in Virginia... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 1144 pages
...This state cannot declare that an act done in Virginia by a citizen of Virginia shall be criminal and punishable in this state: our penal laws can only...limits of this state, except as to our own citizens." In a similar case, People v. Merrill, 11 the court said: " It cannot be pretended or assumed that a... | |
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This state cannot declare that an act done in Virginia by a citizen of Virginia shall be criminal and punishable in this state. Our penal laws can only extend to the limits of this State, except as to our own citizens. 