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PEOPLE v. MARTIN

Docket No. B082876.

38 Cal.App.4th 883 (1995)

45 Cal. Rptr.2d 502

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES LINDSAY MARTIN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

September 27, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Maureen DeMaio, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Brad D. Levenson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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.

(1a) 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...

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