California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Dimitrov, 33 Cal.App.4th 18, 39 Cal.Rptr.2d 257 (Cal. App. 1995):
"Destructive device" is defined by statute to include a variety of specified weapons, including "any bomb." (Pen.Code, 12301, subd. (a)(2).) As People v. Quinn (1976) 57 Cal.App.3d 251, 258, 129 Cal.Rptr. 139 observed, "the term 'bomb' is not vague either on its face or as construed...." Persons of common intelligence know what a bomb is. (Id. at p. 259, 129 Cal.Rptr. 139.) It sufficed, under the instant circumstances, for the trial court to merely inform the jury "a pipe bomb is a destructive device."
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