A magistrate is an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense.
Cal. Penal Code § 807
Complaints Before Magistrates
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case People v. Brite (1937)
Most recently applied in People v. P.P.G., Inc. (November 1978)
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.