AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A PENAL CODE.

[Approved February 14th, 1872.]

The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

TITLE OF THE ACT.

§ 1. This act shall be known as The Penal Code of California, and is divided into three parts, as follows:

I. Of Crimes and Punishments.

II. Of Criminal Procedure.

III. Of the State Prison and County Jails. En. February 14, 1872.

This act, how cited: Post, sec. 24.

Construction of the codes, and of their various sections: See Pol. Code, secs. 4478 et seq.