People v. Martin

Opinion

GILBERT, J.

Penal Code section 790 is a venue statute. It provides that jurisdiction of a criminal action for murder may be in one of three counties: where the fatal injury was inflicted, where the injured party dies, or where the body was found.

Here we hold that the constitutional right of vicinage is satisfied if the trial is held in any of the three counties specified in Penal Code section 790.

*885Defendant James Lindsay Martin appeals a judgment of conviction of murder with findings of the special circumstances of robbery and kidnapping to commit robbery. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a),…