WHAT IS A TRANSITORY OFFENSE AND A

CONTINUING OFFENSE?
> TRANSITORY OFFENSE: crimes where some acts material and essential to the crimes and requisite to their commission occur in
one municipality or territory and some acts are done in another place.
>CONTINUING OFFENSE:

consummated in one place, yet by nature of the offense, the violation of the law is deemed
continuing

HOW DO YOU DETERMINE JURISDICTION

OVER A CONTINUING CRIME?
> The courts of the territories where the essential ingredients of the crime took place have CONCURRENT JURISDICTION
> But the court which first acquires jurisdiction excludes the other courts