A criminal action is prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of California, as a party, against the person charged with the offense.
Cal. Penal Code § 684
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Applied in 30 court decisions — leading case 32 Cal. 3d 468 - People v. Sims (1982)
Most recently applied in GameStop, Inc. v. Superior Court of Riverside Cnty. (August 2018)
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.