When any offense may have been committed within this state on board any steamboat, flatboat, keelboat, or other vessel in the course of any voyage or trip, an indictment for the offense may be found and a trial and conviction on the offense had in any county through which or any part of which the boat or vessel passed in the course of the same voyage or trip, and with like effect as in the county in which the offense was committed.
Ark. Code § 16-88-111