The only pleading on the part of the defendant is either a demurrer or a plea.
Cal. Penal Code § 1002
Demurrer and Amendment
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones (1990)
Most recently applied in People v. Meza (August 2019)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.