{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-777","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 777","heading":"","body":"Every person is liable to punishment by the laws of this State, for a public offense committed by him therein, except where it is by law cognizable exclusively in the courts of the United States; and except as otherwise provided by law the jurisdiction of every public offense is in any competent court within the jurisdictional territory of which it is committed.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.]","TITLE 3. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [777. - 883.]","CHAPTER 1. Of the Local Jurisdiction of Public Offenses [777. - 795.]"],"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":"7a73bf645661b8f1c30391d2dad57e875cb4fe802772d717a39dac1ba32a23a2","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-750","next":"us-ca/pen-777a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}