PC CODES Flashcards
15 PC
a crime or public offense is an act commitied or omitted in violation of a law forbidding it or commanding it, upon conviction either of the following punishments
DEATH imprisonment fine removal from officer disqualification to hold and employ any officer of honor
20 PC
every crime or offense exist a union or joint operation of act and intent or criminal negligence
21 A PC
an attempt to commit a crime consist of two elements a specific intent to commit the crime and a direct but ineffectual act done toward its commission
26 PC
all ppl are capable of commiting crimes except
1) children under 14 in absense of clear proof that they knew of its wrongfulness
2) persons who are mentally incapacitated
3 persons who commited the act or made omission chared under an ognorance or mistake of facy which disproved criminal intent
4) peaople who commit act without being conscious
5) ppl who commited act or made omision charged thru misfortune or by accident when it appeares that there was no evil design, intention, or culpable negligence
6) ppl who commited act made under threats of menaces suffient to show that they had reasonable cause to believe thier lives would be endangered if they refused
27 PC
following persons are liable to punishment under the laws
1) all ppl who commit in whole or part any crime within state
2) all who commit any offense without this state which, if committted within this state would be larceny, carjacking, robeery, embezzlement and bring property stolen or embezzled or any part are found with it in this state
3) all who being without this state cause, cause or aid, advise or encourage another person to commit a crime within this state
B) perjury in violation of section 118 in punishable when commitied outside of californiq
187 PC
unlawfull killing of a human being, or fetus with malice and aforethought
187 B PC
section shall not apply to any person who commits an act that results in the death of fetus if any apply:
1) act complied with abortion act
2) act was commited by a holder of a physician and surgeons certicficate in a medical case where the result of childbirth would be death of the mother or fetus.
3) the act was soliciated aided or abetted or consented to by the mother of the fetus.
191.5 A PC
Gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated is the unlawful killing
of a human being without malice aforethought, in the driving of a vehicle, where the
driving was in violation of Section 23140, 23152, or 23153 of the Vehicle Code, and
the killing was either the proximate result of the commission of an unlawful act, not
amounting to a felony, and with gross negligence, or the proximate result of the
commission of a lawful act that might produce death, in an unlawful manner, and
with gross negligence.
191.5 B PC
Vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated is the unlawful killing of a human
being without malice aforethought, in the driving of a vehicle, where the driving was
in violation of Section 23140, 23152, or 23153 of the Vehicle Code, and the killing
was either the proximate result of the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting
to a felony, but WITHOUT `gross negligence, or the proximate result of the commission
of a lawful act that might produce death, in an unlawful manner, but without gross
negligence
191.5. C PC
punishable by imprisonment for 4,6, 10 years
192 PC
Mansluather is the unlawfull killing of a human being without malice and three kinds
192 A PC
Manslaughter voluntary- upon sudden quarrel or heat of passion
192 B PC
Manslaughter, involuntary- commision of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony or in a commision of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawfull manner, or without due caution or inspection.
shall not apply to acts commited in the driving of a vehicle
192 C PC
Manslaughter, vehicular-
1) driving in an unlawful act not amounting to felony and with gross negligence or driving in a lawfull act that might produce death in an unlawful manner with negligence.
2) driving in an unlawful act not amounting to felony but without negligence
3) driving where the collision or accident was knowingly caused for financial gain and resulted in death of person
192 D PC
This section shall not be construed as making any homicide in the driving of
a vehicle punishable that is not a proximate result of the commission of an unlawful
act, not amounting to a felony, or of the commission of a lawful act which might
produce death, in an unlawful manner
192 E PC
Gross negligence,” as used in this section, does not prohibit or preclude a
charge of murder under Section 188 upon facts exhibiting wantonness and a conscious
disregard for life to support a finding of implied malice, or upon facts showing malice,
consistent with the holding of the California Supreme Court in People v. Watson
(1981) 30 Cal.3d 290
192 F
) For purposes of determining sudden quarrel or heat of passion pursuant to
subdivision (a), the provocation was not objectively reasonable if it resulted from the
discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim’s actual or
perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including
under circumstances in which the victim made an unwanted nonforcible romantic or
sexual advance towards the defendant, or if the defendant and victim dated or had a
romantic or sexual relationship. Nothing in this section shall preclude the jury from considering all facts
194 PC
to make killing either murder or manslaughter it is not requisite that the party die within three years and a day after the stroke recieved or the cause of death administered
If death occurs beyond the time of three years and a day, there shall be
a rebuttable presumption that the killing was not criminal. The prosecution shall bear
the burden of overcoming this presumption. In the computation of time, the whole of
the day on which the act was done shall be reckoned the first
195 PC
homicide is EXCUSABLE in the following cases
1) when commited by accident and misfortune or in doing any other lawful act by lawful means with usual and ordinary caution and without any unlawful intent
2) when commited by accident or misfortune in the heat of passion upon any sudden and sufficient provocation or upon suddent combat when no undue advantage is taken not any dangerous weapon is used and the the kiling is not done is a cruel manner
196 PC
Homicide is Justified in the following:
1) resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felonym or to do SBI upon a person
2) when commited in defense of habitation, property, or person, again one who manifesty intents and endeavors, in a violent riotous or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitat or another for the prupose of offering violence to any person
3) when commited in lawful defesne of such person or spouse, parent, child, etc when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or do SBI
4)When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to
apprehend any person for any felony committed, or in lawfully suppressing any riot,
or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace
198.5 PC
Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily injury
within his or her residence shall be presumed to have held a reasonable fear of
imminent peril of death or great bodily injury to self, family, or a member of the
household when that force is used against another person, not a member of the family
or household, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly
entered the residence and the person using the force knew or had reason to believe
that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred.
As used in this section, great bodily injury means a significant or substantial physical
injury.
203 PC
Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a
member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out and eye, nose ear or lip is gulty of mayhem.
205 PC
A person is guilty of aggravated mayhem when he or she unlawfully, under
circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the physical or psychological
well-being of another person, intentionally causes permanent disability or disfigurement
of another human being or deprives a human being of a limb, organ, or member of
his or her body. For purposes of this section, it is not necessary to prove an intent to
kill. Aggravated mayhem is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison
for life with the possibility of parole.
(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 785, Sec. 1.
207 A PC
Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals
or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person
into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty
of kidnapping