§ 916 Included offense or attempt may be found.

Here's a plain English summary:

If you're on trial for a crime, the jury doesn't have to choose only between "guilty of the exact charge" or "not guilty." They can also find you guilty of a lesser crime that's automatically part of the bigger charge. For example, if someone is charged with a serious assault, the jury might decide the evidence only supports a lesser, less serious version of that assault.

The jury also has the option to convict on an attempt instead of the full crime. So if the evidence shows someone tried to commit a crime but didn't fully succeed, the jury can find them guilty of the attempt rather than the completed offense.

This gives juries more flexibility. They aren't locked into an all-or-nothing decision. Instead, they can match the verdict to what the evidence actually shows happened, even if that means convicting on a smaller or related charge instead of the original one.