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Penal Code § 965

CHAPTER 2. Rules of Pleading

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 965Official source ↗

Amended by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 47.

When an instrument which is the subject of an indictment or information for forgery has been destroyed or withheld by the act or the procurement of the defendant, and the fact of such destruction or withholding is alleged in the indictment, or information, and established on the trial, the misdescription of the instrument is immaterial.