Any person making an arrest may orally summon as many persons as he deems necessary to aid him therein.
Cal. Penal Code § 839
Arrest, by Whom and How Made
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case People v. Sjosten (1968)
Most recently applied in Dyer v. Department of Motor Vehicles (May 2008)
Enacted 1872.
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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.