California Penal Code CHAPTER 4 - The Verdict or Finding

• Section 1147.
  When the jury have agreed upon their verdict, they must be conducted into court by the officer having them in charge. Their names must then...
• Section 1148.
  If charged with a felony the defendant must, before the verdict is received, appear in person, unless, after the exercise of reasonable diligence to procure...
• Section 1149.
  When the jury appear they must be asked by the Court, or Clerk, whether they have agreed upon their verdict, and if the foreman answers...
• Section 1150.
  The jury must render a general verdict, except that in a felony case, when they are in doubt as to the legal effect of the...
• Section 1151.
  A general verdict upon a plea of not guilty is either “guilty” or “not guilty,” which imports a conviction or acquittal of the offense charged...
• Section 1152.
  A special verdict is that by which the jury find the facts only, leaving the judgment to the Court. It must present the conclusions of...
• Section 1153.
  The special verdict must be reduced to writing by the jury, or in their presence entered upon the minutes of the Court, read to the...
• Section 1154.
  The special verdict need not be in any particular form, but is sufficient if it presents intelligibly the facts found by the jury.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 1155.
  The court must give judgment upon the special verdict as follows:1. If the plea is not guilty, and the facts prove the defendant guilty of the...
• Section 1156.
  If the jury do not, in a special verdict, pronounce affirmatively or negatively on the facts necessary to enable the court to give judgment, or...
• Section 1157.
  Whenever a defendant is convicted of a crime or attempt to commit a crime which is distinguished into degrees, the jury, or the court if...
• Section 1158.
  Whenever the fact of a previous conviction of another offense is charged in an accusatory pleading, and the defendant is found guilty of the offense...
• Section 1158a.
  (a) Whenever the fact that a defendant was armed with a weapon either at the time of his commission of the offense or at the time...
• Section 1159.
  The jury, or the judge if a jury trial is waived, may find the defendant guilty of any offense, the commission of which is necessarily...
• Section 1160.
  On a charge against two or more defendants jointly, if the jury cannot agree upon a verdict as to all, they may render a verdict...
• Section 1161.
  When there is a verdict of conviction, in which it appears to the Court that the jury have mistaken the law, the Court may explain...
• Section 1162.
  If the jury persist in finding an informal verdict, from which, however, it can be clearly understood that their intention is to find in favor...
• Section 1163.
  When a verdict is rendered, and before it is recorded, the jury may be polled, at the request of either party, in which case they...
• Section 1164.
  (a) When the verdict given is receivable by the court, the clerk shall record it in full upon the minutes, and if requested by any party...
• Section 1165.
  Where a general verdict is rendered or a finding by the court is made in favor of the defendant, except on a plea of not...
• Section 1166.
  If a general verdict is rendered against the defendant, or a special verdict is given, he or she must be remanded, if in custody, or...
• Section 1167.
  When a jury trial is waived, the judge or justice before whom the trial is had shall, at the conclusion thereof, announce his findings upon...
• Section 1168.
  (a) Every person who commits a public offense, for which any specification of three time periods of imprisonment in any state prison or imprisonment pursuant to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018