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Indictments or informations for assaulting officers may be tried in any county, and offenders convicted thereof sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for three years in addition to or in lieu of other sentence.
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43. And for the better and more impartial trial of any indictment or information which shall be found, commenced, or prosecuted for any such violent assault or resistance as aforesaid, be it enacted, that every such offence shall and may be inquired of, examined tried, and determined in any county in England, if such offence shall have been committed in England, or in any of the islands thereof, or in any county in Scotland, if the same shall have been committed in Scotland or in any of the islands thereof, or in any county in Ireland, if the same shall have been committed in Ireland or in any of the islands thereof, in such manner and form as if the same offence had been committed in such county respectively; and that whenever any person shall be convicted of any such violent assault or resistance as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the court before which any such offender shall be convicted, or which by law is authorized to pass sentence upon any such offender, to award and order (if such court shall think fit) sentence of imprisonment, with hard labour, for any term not exceeding the term of three years, either in addition to or in lieu of any other punishment or penalty which may by law be inflicted or imposed upon any such offender; and every such offender shall thereupon suffer such sentence in such place, and for such term as aforesaid, as such court shall think fit to direct.
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