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Home » US Law » 2019 US Virgin Islands Code » Title 14 - Crimes » Chapter 1 - General Provisions » Subchapter V - Applicability of Title

§ 81. Persons liable to punishment

The punishment prescribed by this title shall apply to whoever— (1) commits, in whole or in part, any offense within the Virgin Islands; or (2) commits larceny or robbery outside the Virgin Islands, and brings, or is found with, the stolen property within the Virgin Islands; or (3) from outside the Virgin Islands, causes, aids, […]

§ 82. Crimes commenced outside Virgin Islands

When the commission of a crime commenced without the Virgin Islands is consummated within its boundaries the defendant is liable to punishment thereof in the Virgin Islands, although he was out of the Virgin Islands at the time of the commission of the crime charged, provided he consummated it in the Virgin Islands through the […]

§ 83. Place of commission of murder or manslaughter

When the crime of murder or manslaughter has been committed by means of a mortal wound given, or injury inflicted, or poison administered without the Virgin Islands, and the person so wounded, injured, or poisoned dies thereof within the Virgin Islands, the person committing such crime is liable to punishment therefor in the Virgin Islands, […]

§ 84. Conviction or acquittal outside Virgin Islands

When an act declared to be a crime is within the jurisdiction of any United States, State, county, commonwealth or Superior Court in the United States or any of its possessions as well as of the Virgin Islands, a conviction or acquittal thereof in the former is a bar to a prosecution therefor in the […]