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California Penal Code

§ 173

PEN § 173Title 7 · Part 1 · Ch. 7

Statute text

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Every Captain, Master of a vessel, or other person, who willfully imports, brings, or sends, or causes or procures to be brought or sent, into this State, any person who is a foreign convict of any crime which, if committed within this State, would be punishable therein (treason and misprision of treason excepted), or who is delivered or sent to him from any prison or place of confinement in any place without this State, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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