West Virginia Code § 61-2-6

Homicide punishable within state if injury occurs within and death without,
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If any person be stricken, wounded or poisoned in, and die by reason thereof out of, this
state, the offender shall be as guilty, and be prosecuted and punished, as if the death had
occurred in the county in which the stroke, wound or poison was given or administered. And
if any person be stricken, wounded or poisoned out of this state, and die by ereason thereof
within this state, the offender shall be as guilty, and may be prosecuted and punished, as if
the mortal stroke or wound had been given, or poison administered, in rthe county in which
the person so stricken, wounded or poisoned may so die.

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