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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>350465</law_id><section_number>18.2-21</section_number><catch_line>When and where accessories tried; how indicted</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="52" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="2">Principals and Accessories</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>An accessory, either before or after the fact, may, whether the principal felon be convicted or not, or be amenable to justice or not, be indicted, tried, convicted and punished in the county or corporation in which he became accessory, or in which the principal felon might be indicted. Any such <span class="dictionary">accessory before the fact</span> may be indicted either with such principal or separately.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-13; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
