Penal Code - PEN
PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681 - 1620]
( Part 2 enacted 1872. ) TITLE 7. OF PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL AND BEFORE JUDGMENT [1065 - 1188]
( Title 7 enacted 1872. ) CHAPTER 4. The Verdict or Finding [1147 - 1168]
( Heading of Chapter 4 amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1674. ) 1152.
A special verdict is that by which the jury find the facts only, leaving the judgment to the Court. It must present the conclusions of fact as established by the evidence, and not the evidence to prove them, and these conclusions of fact must be so presented as that nothing remains to the Court but to draw conclusions of law upon them.
(Enacted 1872.)