When an instrument which is the subject of an indictment or information for forgery has been destroyed or withheld by the act or the procurement of the defendant, and the fact of such destruction or withholding is alleged in the indictment, or information, and established on the trial, the misdescription of the instrument is immaterial.
Cal. Penal Code § 965
Rules of Pleading
Amended by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 47.
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