California Code
PART 2 - OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
TITLE 5 - THE PLEADINGS

CHAPTER 1 - Finding and Presentment of the Indictment

Section 940. - 940. An indictment cannot be found without concurrence of at...

Section 943. - 943. When an indictment is found, the names of the...

Section 944. - 944. An indictment, when found by the grand jury, must...

Section 945. - 945. When an indictment is found against a defendant not...

CHAPTER 2 - Rules of Pleading

Section 948. - 948. All the forms of pleading in criminal actions, and...

Section 949. - 949. The first pleading on the part of the people...

Section 950. - 950. The accusatory pleading must contain: 1. The title of...

Section 951. - 951. An indictment or information may be in substantially the...

Section 952. - 952. In charging an offense, each count shall contain, and...

Section 953. - 953. When a defendant is charged by a fictitious or...

Section 954. - 954. An accusatory pleading may charge two or more different...

Section 954.1. - 954.1. In cases in which two or more different offenses...

Section 955. - 955. The precise time at which the offense was committed...

Section 956. - 956. When an offense involves the commission of, or an...

Section 957. - 957. The words used in an accusatory pleading are construed...

Section 958. - 958. Words used in a statute to define a public...

Section 959. - 959. The accusatory pleading is sufficient if it can be...

Section 959.1. - 959.1. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 740, 806, 949, and 959 or...

Section 960. - 960. No accusatory pleading is insufficient, nor can the trial,...

Section 961. - 961. Neither presumptions of law, nor matters of which judicial...

Section 962. - 962. In pleading a judgment or other determination of, or...

Section 963. - 963. In pleading a private statute, or an ordinance of...

Section 964. - 964. (a) In each county, the district attorney and the...

Section 965. - 965. When an instrument which is the subject of an...

Section 966. - 966. In an accusatory pleading for perjury, or subornation of...

Section 967. - 967. In an accusatory pleading charging the theft of money,...

Section 968. - 968. An accusatory pleading charging exhibiting, publishing, passing, selling, or...

Section 969. - 969. In charging the fact of a previous conviction of...

Section 969a. - 969a. Whenever it shall be discovered that a pending indictment...

Section 969b. - 969b. For the purpose of establishing prima facie evidence of...

Section 969e. - 969e. In charging the fact of a previous conviction for...

Section 969f. - 969f. (a) Whenever a defendant has committed a serious felony...

Section 969.5. - 969.5. (a) Whenever it shall be discovered that a pending...

Section 970. - 970. When several defendants are named in one accusatory pleading,...

Section 971. - 971. The distinction between an accessory before the fact and...

Section 972. - 972. An accessory to the commission of a felony may...

Section 973. - 973. If the accusatory pleading in any criminal action has...