CALIFORNIA CODES
PENAL CODE
SECTION 12020-12040




12020.  (a) Any person in this state who does any of the following
is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year
or in the state prison:
   (1) Manufactures or causes to be manufactured, imports into the
state, keeps for sale, or offers or exposes for sale, or who gives,
lends, or possesses any cane gun or wallet gun, any undetectable
firearm, any firearm which is not immediately recognizable as a
firearm, any camouflaging firearm container, any ammunition which
contains or consists of any flechette dart, any bullet containing or
carrying an explosive agent, any ballistic knife, any multiburst
trigger activator, any nunchaku, any short-barreled shotgun, any
short-barreled rifle, any metal knuckles, any belt buckle knife, any
leaded cane, any zip gun, any shuriken, any unconventional pistol,
any lipstick case knife, any cane sword, any shobi-zue, any air gauge
knife, any writing pen knife, any metal military practice
handgrenade or metal replica handgrenade, or any instrument or weapon
of the kind commonly known as a blackjack, slungshot, billy,
sandclub, sap, or sandbag.
   
   (b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to any of the following:
   
   (3) The possession of a nunchaku on the premises of a school which
holds a regulatory or business license and teaches the arts of
self-defense.
   (4) The manufacture of a nunchaku for sale to, or the sale of a
nunchaku to, a school which holds a regulatory or business license
and teaches the arts of self-defense.
   


PENAL CODE 
SECTION 240-248 


Defination Of Assult

240.  An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present
ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another.

Defination Of Battery

242.  A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence
upon the person of another.

Defination Of Murder

189.  All murder which is perpetrated by means of a destructive
device or explosive, knowing use of ammunition designed primarily to
penetrate metal or armor, poison, lying in wait, torture, or by any
other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which
is committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate,
arson, rape, carjacking, robbery, burglary, mayhem, kidnapping, train
wrecking, or any act punishable under Section 206, 286, 288, 288a,
or 289, or any murder which is perpetrated by means of discharging a
firearm from a motor vehicle, intentionally at another person outside
of the vehicle with the intent to inflict death, is murder of the
first degree.  All other kinds of murders are of the second degree.
   As used in this section, "destructive device" means any
destructive device as defined in Section 12301, and "explosive" means
any explosive as defined in Section 12000 of the Health and Safety
Code.
   To prove the killing was "deliberate and premeditated," it shall
not be necessary to prove the defendant maturely and meaningfully
reflected upon the gravity of his or her act.

Defination Of Manslaughter

192.  Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without
malice.  It is of three kinds:
   (a) Voluntary--upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion.
   (b) Involuntary--in the commission of an unlawful act, not
amounting to felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might
produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and
circumspection.  This subdivision shall not apply to acts committed
in the driving of a vehicle.
   (c) Vehicular
   
Defination Of Mayhem

203.  Every person who unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human
being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures, or renders it
useless, or cuts or disables the tongue, or puts out an eye, or
slits the nose, ear, or lip, is guilty of mayhem.