{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-617","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 617","heading":"","body":"Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates, or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 14. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF [594. - 625c.]"],"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":"c72af9d6406127cdc2d635b231f5c061caa3a4d44a5fbb8f480633f917c25099","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-616","next":"us-ca/pen-618"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}