When an offense involves the commission of, or an attempt to commit a private injury, and is described with sufficient certainty in other respects to identify the act, an erroneous allegation as to the person injured, or intended to be injured, or of the place where the offense was committed, or of the property involved in its commission, is not material.
Cal. Penal Code § 956
Rules of Pleading
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case 114 Cal. App. 2d 680 - People v. Frankfort (1952)
Most recently applied in People v. Amperano (September 2011)
Amended by Stats. 1927, Ch. 611.
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