Criminal prosecutions, under the antitrust laws of this state, may be instituted and conducted to final judgment against any one or more of any number of corporations or individuals, or both in any county in which a violation of said laws has been committed by them or in any county in which they formed a trust and combine, or in which such trust and combine, though formed elsewhere, is by them, or any of them, carried on, promoted, employed, operated, used or enjoyed.