Michigan Compiled Laws § 762.4 Jurisdiction; Court Of Record; Offense Near Boundary Line.


762.4 Jurisdiction; court of record; offense near boundary line.

Sec. 4.

Whenever any court of record having criminal jurisdiction, the boundaries of whose jurisdiction as fixed by statute are not coincident with the boundary lines of a county or counties, shall take jurisdiction or have pending before it any trial or cause arising out of the commission of an offense at, on or near to the boundary line of the jurisdiction of said court, the jurisdiction of said court shall not be questioned, after the swearing of the jury, unless the evidence shall show the offense to have been committed more than 100 rods outside of the boundary of the jurisdiction of said court as fixed by statute.


History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17122 ;-- CL 1948, 762.4
Former Law: See Act 399 of 1921.


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