---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3235"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3235"
heading: "Venue in capital cases"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3235"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 211 — Jurisdiction and Venue"
---

# §3235. Venue in capital cases


The trial of [offenses](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) punishable with death shall be had in the county where the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) was committed, where that can be done without great inconvenience.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 826.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on section 101 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Judicial Code and Judiciary (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, § 40, 36 Stat. 1100).