{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-1127c","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 1127c","heading":"","body":"In any criminal trial or proceeding where evidence of flight of a defendant is relied upon as tending to show guilt, the court shall instruct the jury substantially as follows:\nThe flight of a person immediately after the commission of a crime, or after he is accused of a crime that has been committed, is not sufficient in itself to establish his guilt, but is a fact which, if proved, the jury may consider in deciding his guilt or innocence. The weight to which such circumstance is entitled is a matter for the jury to determine.\nNo further instruction on the subject of flight need be given.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.]","TITLE 7. OF PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL AND BEFORE JUDGMENT [1065. - 1188.]","CHAPTER 2. The Trial [1093. - 1130.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"ae2658feb0f44f7c06f385371d18c281340737b0aebebe8367a55d525e45674f","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-1127b","next":"us-ca/pen-1127d"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}