Section 1359 Of Chapter 5. Examination Of Witnesses On Commission From California Penal Code >> Title 10. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 5.
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. If the agent is dead, or from sickness or other casualty
unable personally to deliver the commission and return, as prescribed
in the last section, it may be received by the Clerk or Judge from
any other person, upon his making an affidavit that he received it
from the agent; that the agent is dead, or from sickness or other
casualty unable to deliver it; that it has not been opened or altered
since the person making the affidavit received it; and that he
believes it has not been opened or altered since it came from the
hands of the Commissioner.