Section 784 Of Chapter 1. Of The Local Jurisdiction Of Public Offenses From California Penal Code >> Title 3. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1.
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. The jurisdiction of a criminal action:
(a) For forcibly and without lawful authority seizing and
confining another, or inveigling or kidnapping another, with intent,
against his or her will, to cause him or her to be secretly confined
or imprisoned in this state, or to be sent out of the state, or from
one county to another, or to be sold as a slave, or in any way held
to service;
(b) For inveigling, enticing, or taking away any person for the
purpose of concubinage or prostitution, as defined in subdivision (b)
of Section 647;
Is in any competent court within the jurisdictional territory in
which the offense was committed, or in the jurisdictional territory
out of which the person upon whom the offense was committed was taken
or within the jurisdictional territory in which an act was done by
the defendant in instigating, procuring, promoting, or aiding in the
commission of the offense, or in abetting the parties concerned
therein.