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Penal Code § 789

CHAPTER 1. Of the Local Jurisdiction of Public Offenses

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 789Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1674.

The jurisdiction of a criminal action for stealing or embezzling, in any other state, the property of another, or receiving it knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, and bringing the same into this State, is in any competent court into or through the jurisdictional territory of which such stolen or embezzled property has been brought.