CHAPTER 1. Of the Local Jurisdiction of Public Offenses [777. - 795.]

Chapter 1 enacted 1872.

§§ 777–795 · 27 sections

§ 777 Every person is liable to punishment by the laws of this State, for a public offense committed by him therein, except where it is by law cognizable exclusively…
§ 777a If a parent violates the provisions of Section 270 of this code, the jurisdiction of such offense is in any competent court of either the jurisdictional…
§ 777b Perjury, in violation of Section 118, committed outside of the State of California is punishable in a competent court in the jurisdictional territory in this…
§ 778 When the commission of a public offense, commenced without the State, is consummated within its boundaries by a defendant, himself outside the State, through…
§ 778a (a) Whenever a person, with intent to commit a crime, does any act within this state in execution or part execution of that intent, which culminates in the…
§ 778b Every person who, being out of this state, causes, aids, advises, or encourages any person to commit a crime within this state, and is afterwards found within…
§ 781 Except as provided in Section 923, when a public offense is committed in part in one jurisdictional territory and in part in another jurisdictional territory,…
§ 782 When a public offense is committed on the boundary of two or more jurisdictional territories, or within 500 yards thereof, the jurisdiction of such offense is…
§ 783 When a public offense is committed in this State, on board a vessel navigating a river, bay, slough, lake, or canal, or lying therein, in the prosecution of…
§ 783.5 When a public offense is committed in a park situated in more than one county, the jurisdiction over such an offense is in any competent court in any county in…
§ 784 The jurisdiction of a criminal action: (a) For forcibly and without lawful authority seizing and confining another, or inveigling or kidnapping another, with…
§ 784.5 The jurisdiction of a criminal action for a violation of Section 277, 278, or 278.5 shall be in any one of the following jurisdictional territories: (a) Any…
§ 784.7 (a) If more than one violation of Section 220, except assault with intent to commit mayhem, 261, 264.1, 269, 286, 287, 288, 288.5, 288.7, or 289 or former…
§ 784.8 If more than one felony violation of subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 368 occurs in more than one jurisdictional territory, the jurisdiction of any of those…
§ 785 When the offense of incest is committed in the jurisdictional territory of one competent court and the defendant is apprehended in the jurisdictional territory…
§ 786 (a) If property taken in one jurisdictional territory by burglary, carjacking, robbery, theft, or embezzlement has been brought into another, or when property…
§ 786.5 (a) The jurisdiction of a criminal action brought by the Attorney General for theft, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 484, or a violation of Section…
§ 787 When multiple offenses punishable under one or more of Sections 11418, 11418.5, and 11419 occur in more than one jurisdictional territory, and the offenses are…
§ 788 The jurisdiction of a criminal action for treason, when the overt act is committed out of the State, is in any county of the State.
§ 789 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…
§ 790 (a) The jurisdiction of a criminal action for murder or manslaughter is in the county where the fatal injury was inflicted or in the county in which the…
§ 791 In the case of an accessory, as defined in Section 32, in the commission of a public offense, the jurisdiction is in any competent court within the…
§ 792 The jurisdiction of a criminal action against a principal in the commission of a public offense, when such principal is not present at the commission of the…
§ 793 When an act charged as a public offense is within the jurisdiction of the United States, or of another state or territory of the United States, as well as of…
§ 793.5 Any person convicted of a crime based upon an act or omission for which he or she has been acquitted or convicted in another country shall be entitled to…
§ 794 Where an offense is within the jurisdiction of two or more courts, a conviction or acquittal thereof in one court is a bar to a prosecution therefor in another.
§ 795 The jurisdiction of a violation of Sections 412, 413, or 414, or a conspiracy to violate any of said sections, is in any competent court within the…