---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3236"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3236"
heading: "Murder or manslaughter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3236"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 211 — Jurisdiction and Venue"
---

# §3236. Murder or manslaughter


In all cases of murder or manslaughter, the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) shall be deemed to have been committed at the place where the injury was inflicted, or the poison administered or other means employed which caused the death, without regard to the place where the death occurs.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 553 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 336, 35 Stat. 1152).