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Penal Code § 972

CHAPTER 2. Rules of Pleading

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 972Official source ↗

Amended by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 47.

An accessory to the commission of a felony may be prosecuted, tried, and punished, though the principal may be neither prosecuted nor tried, and though the principal may have been acquitted.