§ 12-3-1. Offenses triable by district court. The district court shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of all crimes which are not expressly designated as felonies, offenses, misdemeanors, and violations, including offenses against town or city ordinances, if no special court exists or is created by charter or law for that purpose, punishable by a fine […]
§ 12-3-10. Enumeration of statutes of limitation. The following compilation of statutes of limitation for criminal offenses is set forth as an aid to the public and is not intended to replace the specific statutes referred to in this section. The omission of any statute of limitation from this list shall in no way affect […]
§ 12-3-2. Power of district court over preliminary proceedings — Venue of offenses on public waters. The district court for the division in which the court is situated shall have cognizance over all other crimes, offenses, and misdemeanors against the laws of the state other than those mentioned in § 12-3-1, which shall be done […]
§ 12-3-3. Jurisdiction of New Shoreham wardens’ court. The wardens’ court of the town of New Shoreham shall have exclusive jurisdiction and cognizance over all crimes, offenses, and misdemeanors committed or done or occurring within the town of New Shoreham and the adjacent waters within the jurisdiction of the state, punishable by fine not exceeding […]
§ 12-3-4. Venue of offenses. (a) Every indictment or information for offenses committed on the waters of Narragansett Bay may be tried in any county in the discretion of the attorney general, unless otherwise ordered by the presiding justice. (b) For the purpose of prosecuting and punishing criminal offenses over which the superior court has […]
§ 12-3-5. Offenses in vicinity of county or division boundary — Offenses at sea — Offenses aboard steamboat or train. A criminal offense committed on or within one hundred (100) rods of the boundary line of two (2) counties may be alleged to have been committed and may be prosecuted and proceeded against in either […]
§ 12-3-6. Act within state resulting in death outside state. If a mortal wound is given, or if other violence or injury is inflicted, or if poison is administered, within this state, as a result of which death ensues outside this state, the homicide shall be prosecuted and punished at the location of the superior […]
§ 12-3-7. Jurisdiction based on importation of stolen property. Whenever the property of another which has been taken or obtained in any other state or area within the jurisdiction of the United States, by the commission of any of the offenses described in §§ 11-8-6, 11-41-1 — 11-41-4, 11-41-6 — 11-41-9, 11-41-11, and 11-44-7, is […]
§ 12-3-8. Venue of larceny prosecutions. Larceny, whether at common law, or as defined by §§ 11-41-1 — 11-41-4, 11-41-6, and 11-41-11, may be prosecuted and proceeded against in the superior court at any location that may by order be designated by the presiding justice or in any division of the district court in which […]
§ 12-3-9. Possession of property stolen outside state. Whenever any property has been taken or obtained in any other state or area within the jurisdiction of the United States by robbery, stealing, embezzlement, fraudulent conversion, or false pretenses with the intent to cheat and defraud, and the property is brought into this state by any […]
