California Penal Code CHAPTER 1 - Of the Local Jurisdiction of Public Offenses

• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 the...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 784.
  The jurisdiction of a criminal action:(a) For forcibly and without lawful authority seizing and confining another, or inveigling or kidnapping another, with intent, against his or...
• Section 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...
• Section 784.7.
  (a) If more than one violation of Section 220, except assault with intent to commit mayhem, 261, 262, 264.1, 269, 286, 288, 288a, 288.5, 288.7, or...
• Section 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 of...
• Section 786.
  (a) If property taken in one jurisdictional territory by burglary, carjacking, robbery, theft, or embezzlement has been brought into another, or when property is received in...
• 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...
• Section 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.(Amended...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018