The writ must be directed to the person having custody of or restraining the person on whose behalf the application is made, and must command him to have the body of such person before the Court or Judge before whom the writ is returnable, at a time and place therein specified.
Cal. Penal Code § 1477
Of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 8 Cal. 4th 728 - People v. Romero (1994)
Most recently applied in Maas v. Superior Court of San Diego County (November 2016)
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.
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