200.540 - Criminal proceedings: Venue.

200.540  Criminal proceedings: Venue.  Every person publishing a libel in this state may be proceeded against in any county where such libelous matter was published or circulated, but a person shall not be proceeded against for the publication of the same libel against the same person in more than one county.

      [1911 C&P § 166; RL § 6431; NCL § 10113]