1891_public laws_69_2
CHAPTER 68 An act to provide where offences shall be prosecuted in cases where a mortal wound is inflicted on the high seas or without this state, and death happens in this state. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That section one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine of The Code be amended by adding the following:  and if a mortal wound is given or other violence or injury inflicted, or poison is administered on the high seas or land, either within or without the limits of this state, by means whereof death ensues in any county thereof, said offence may be prosecuted and punished in the county where the death happens.