An accessory to the commission of a felony may be prosecuted, tried, and punished, though the principal may be neither prosecuted nor tried, and though the principal may have been acquitted.
Cal. Penal Code § 972
Rules of Pleading
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 3d 308 - People v. Preston (1973)
Most recently applied in United States v. Vidal (October 2007)
Amended by Code Amendments 1880, Ch. 47.
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.