762.6 Jurisdiction; fatal force inflicted on high seas or navigable rivers. Sec. 6. If any such mortal wound shall be given, or other violence or injury shall be inflicted or poison administered on the high seas, or in any other navigable waters, or on land, either within or without the limits of this state, by means whereof death shall ensue in any county thereof, such offense may be prosecuted and punished in the county where such death shall have ensued. History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17124 ;-- CL 1948, 762.6 Former Law: See section 8 of Ch. 161 of R.S. 1846, being CL 1857, § 5944; CL 1871, § 7806; How., § 9420; CL 1897, § 11780; and CL 1915, § 15608.
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