TITLE 1. OF THE PREVENTION OF PUBLIC OFFENSES [692. - 727.]
Title 1 enacted 1872.
§§ 692–727 · 24 sections
CHAPTER 1. Of Lawful Resistance §§ 692–694 · 3 sections
- § 692 Lawful resistance to the commission of a public offense may be made: 1. By the party about to be injured; 2. By other parties.
- § 693 Resistance sufficient to prevent the offense may be made by the party about to be injured: 1. To prevent an offense against his person, or his family, or some…
- § 694 Any other person, in aid or defense of the person about to be injured, may make resistance sufficient to prevent the offense.
CHAPTER 2. Of the Intervention of the Officers of Justice §§ 697–698 · 2 sections
- § 697 Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice: 1. By requiring security to keep the peace; 2. By forming a police in cities…
- § 698 When the officers of justice are authorized to act in the prevention of public offenses, other persons, who, by their command, act in their aid, are justified…
CHAPTER 3. Security to Keep the Peace §§ 701–714 · 15 sections
- § 701 An information may be laid before any of the magistrates mentioned in Section 808, that a person has threatened to commit an offense against the person or…
- § 701.5 (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), no peace officer or agent of a peace officer shall use a person who is 12 years of age or younger as a minor informant.…
- § 702 When the information is laid before such magistrate he must examine on oath the informer, and any witness he may produce, and must take their depositions in…
- § 703 If it appears from the depositions that there is just reason to fear the commission of the offense threatened, by the person so informed against, the…
- § 704 When the person informed against is brought before the magistrate, if the charge be controverted, the magistrate shall take testimony in relation thereto. The…
- § 705 If it appears that there is no just reason to fear the commission of the offense alleged to have been threatened, the person complained of must be discharged.
- § 706 If, however, there is just reason to fear the commission of the offense, the person complained of may be required to enter into an undertaking in such sum, not…
- § 707 If the undertaking required by the last section is given, the party informed of must be discharged. If he does not give it, the magistrate must commit him to…
- § 708 If the person complained of is committed for not giving the undertaking required, he may be discharged by any magistrate, upon giving the same.
- § 709 The undertaking must be filed by the magistrate in the office of the Clerk of the county.
- § 710 A person who, in the presence of a Court or magistrate, assaults or threatens to assault another, or to commit an offense against his person or property, or…
- § 711 Upon the conviction of the person informed against of a breach of the peace, the undertaking is broken.
- § 712 Upon the District Attorney’s producing evidence of such conviction to the Superior Court of the county, the Court must order the undertaking to be prosecuted,…
- § 713 In the action the offense stated in the record of conviction must be alleged as a breach of the undertaking, and such record is conclusive evidence of the…
- § 714 Security to keep the peace, or be of good behavior, cannot be required except as prescribed in this Chapter.
CHAPTER 5. Suppression of Riots §§ 723–727 · 4 sections
- § 723 When a sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds, or has reason to apprehend, that resistance will be made to the execution of the…
- § 724 The officer must certify to the Court from which the process issued the names of the persons resisting, and their aiders and abettors, to the end that they may…
- § 726 Where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or riotously assembled, the sheriff of the county and his or her deputies, the officials…
- § 727 If the persons assembled do not immediately disperse, such magistrates and officers must arrest them, and to that end may command the aid of all persons…