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Criminal Law
SUMMER REVIEWER
BOOK I
CRIMINAL LAW A branch of municipal law which
defines crimes, treats of their nature and provides for
their punishment.
Characteristics of Criminal Law:
1. General binding on all persons who reside
or sojourn in the Philippines
Exceptions:
a. Treaty Stipulation
b. Laws of Preferential Application
c. Principles of Public International Law
Ex:
i. sovereigns and other chiefs of
state
ii. Ambassadors, ministers
plenipotentiary, minister resident
and charges daffaires
(BUT consuls, vice-consuls and other
foreign commercial representatives
CANNOT claim the privileges and
immunities accorded to ambassadors and
ministers.)
2. Territorial penal laws of the Philippines are
enforceable only within its territory
Exceptions: (Art. 2 of RPC binding
even on crimes committed outside the
Philippines)
a. offense committed while on a
Philippine ship or airship
b. forging or counterfeiting any coin or
currency note of the Philippines or
obligations and the securities issued
by the Government
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above-mentioned obligations and
securities
d. while being public officers and
employees, an offense committed in
the exercise of their functions
e. crimes against national security and
the law of the nations defined in Title
One of Book Two
3. Prospective the law does not have any
Advisers: Atty. Lorenzo Padilla, Justice Diosdado Peralta; Head: Kristine Quimpo; Understudies: Ivy Patdu, Krizna
Gomez
retroactive effect.
Exception: when the law is favorable to the
accused
Exceptions to the Exception:
a. The new law is expressly made
inapplicable to pending actions
or existing causes of action
b. Offender is a habitual criminal
Theories of Criminal Law:
1. Classical Theory basis is mans free will to
choose between good and evil, that is why
more stress is placed upon the result of the
felonious act than upon the criminal himself.
The purpose of penalty is retribution. The
RPC is generally governed by this theory.
2. Positivist Theory basis is the sum of
social and economic phenomena which
conditions man to do wrong in spite of or
contrary to his volition. This is exemplified in
the provisions on impossible crimes and
habitual delinquency.
3. Mixed Theory combination of the classical
and positivist theories wherein crimes that
are economic and social in nature should be
dealt in a positive manner. The law is thus
more compassionate.
Construction of Penal Laws:
1. Liberally construed in favor of offender
Ex:
a. the offender must clearly fall within
the terms of the law
b. an act is criminal only when made so
by the statute
2. In cases of conflict with official translation,
original Spanish text is controlling,
3. No interpretation by analogy.
LIMITATIONS ON POWER OF CONGRESS TO
ENACT PENAL LAWS:
1. ex post facto law
2. bill of attainder
3. law that violates the equal protection clause
of the constitution
4. law which imposes cruel and unusual
punishments nor excessive fines
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Omission failure to perform a duty required by law

BOOK ONE
GENERAL PROVISIONS ELEMENTS:
1. there must be an act or omission
2. this must be punishable by the RPC
3. act or omission was done by means of dolo
or culpa

ART.1: TIME WHEN ACT TAKES EFFECT NULLUM CRIMEN, NULLA POENA SINE LEGE
There is no crime when there is no law punishing it.
RPC took effect February 1, 1932.
Classification Of Felonies According To The
Means By Which They Are Committed:
ART. 2: APPLICATION OF ITS PROVISIONS
1. Intentional Felonies- by means of deceit
RULES: (dolo)
1. Philippine vessel or airship Philippine Requisites:
law shall apply to offenses committed in a. freedom
vessels registered with the Philippine Bureau b. intelligence
of Customs. It is the registration, not the c. intent.
citizenship of the owner which matters.
2. Foreign vessel MISTAKE OF FACT misapprehension of
a. French Rule fact on the part of the person who caused
General Rule: Crimes committed aboard injury to another. He is not criminally liable.
a foreign vessel within the territorial Requisites:
waters of a country are NOT triable in the a. the act done would have been lawful
courts of such country. had the facts been as the accused
Exception: commission affects the believed them to be
peace and security of the territory, or bintention is lawful
the safety of the state is endangered. b. mistake must be without fault or
carelessness by the accused
b. English Rule
General Rule: Crimes committed aboard 2. Culpable Felonies- by means of fault (culpa)
a foreign vessel within the territorial Requisites:
waters of a country are triable in the a. freedom
courts of such country. b. intelligence
Exception: When the crime merely c. negligence (lack of foresight) and
affects things within the vessel or it imprudence (lack of skill)
refers to the internal management
thereof.
*This is applicable in the Philippines. MALA IN SE v. MALA PROHIBITA
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Chapter One: FELONIES the result of culpa necessary-
sufficient that the
Felonies acts and omissions punishable by the offender has the
Revised Penal Code intent to perpetrate
the act prohibited
Crime acts and omissions punishable by any law by the special law
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degree of taken into account taken into account

accomplishme only when Par. 2 Impossible Crime
nt of the crime consummated
mitigating and taken into account GENERALLY not Requisites:
in imposing penalty taken into account 1. Act would have been an offense against
aggravating
persons or property.
circumstance
2. There was criminal intent.
degree of when there is more GENERALLY not 3. Accomplishment is inherently impossible; or
participation than one offender, taken into account inadequate or ineffectual means are
it is taken into employed.
consideration 4. Act is not an actual violation of another
laws violated General Rule: General Rule: provision of the Code or of special law.
RPC Special Penal
Laws Impossible crime occurs when there is:
1. inherent impossibility to commit the crime
INTENT v. MOTIVE 2. inadequate means to consummate the crime
Intent Motive 3. ineffectual means to consummate the crime
purpose to use a moving power which impels
particular means to effect one to act Art. 5: Duty of the court in connection with
a result acts which should be repressed but which are
not covered by the law, and in cases of
element of crime except not an element excessive penalties
in crimes committed with
culpa Note: Paragraph 2 does not apply to crimes
essential in intentional essential only when the identity punishable by special law, including profiteering, and
felonies of the felon is in doubt illegal possession of firearms or drugs. There can be
no executive clemency for these crimes.

ART. 4: CRIMINAL LIABILITY

ART. 6: CONSUMMATED, FRUSTRATED, AND
ATTEMPTED FELONIES
Par.1 Criminal liability for a felony committed
different from that intended to be committed
STAGES OF EXECUTION:
1. CONSUMMATED when all the elements
Requisites:
necessary for its execution and accomplishment
1. felony has been committed intentionally
are present
2. injury or damage done to the other party is
the direct, natural and logical consequence
2. FRUSTRATED
of the felony
Elements:
a. offender performs all acts of execution
Hence, since he is still motivated by criminal intent,
b. all these acts would produce the felony
the offender is criminally liable in:
as a consequence
1. Error in personae mistake in identity
c. BUT the felony is NOT produced
2. Abberatio ictus mistake in blow
d. by reason of causes independent of the
3. Praetor intentionem lack of intent to
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3. ATTEMPTED
PROXIMATE CAUSE the cause, which in the
Elements:
natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any
a. offender commences the felony directly
efficient intervening cause, produces the injury,
by overt acts
without which the result would not have occurred
b. does not perform all acts which would
produce the felony
c. his acts are not stopped by his own
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Attempted Frustrated Consummated ART. 7: WHEN LIGHT FELONIES ARE

Overt acts of All acts of execution are All the acts of PUNISHABLE
execution are present execution are
started present General Rule: Punishable only when they have been
consummated
Not all acts of Crime sought to be The result Exception: Even if not consummated, if
execution are committed is not sought is committed against persons or property
present achieved achieved
Ex: slight physical injuries, theft, alteration of
boundary marks, malicious mischief, and intriguing
Due to reasons Due to intervening against honor.
other than the causes independent of
spontaneous the will of the perpetrator Note: Only principals and accomplices are liable;
desistance of the accessories are NOT liable even if committed against
perpetrator persons or property.

Crimes, which do not admit of Frustrated and ART. 8: CONSPIRACY AND PROPOSAL TO
Attempted Stages: COMMIT FELONY

1. Offenses punishable by Special Penal Laws, CONSPIRACY

unless the law provides otherwise
2. Formal crimes consummated in one
instance
(Ex: slander, adultery, etc.)
3. Impossible Crimes
4. Crimes consummated by mere attempt
(Ex: attempt to flee to an enemy
country, treason, corruption of minors)
5. Felonies by omission
6. Crimes committed by mere agreement
(Ex: betting in sports: ending,
corruption of public officers)
Crimes which do not admit of Frustrated Stage:
1. Rape
2. Bribery
3. Corruption of Public Officers
4. Adultery
5. Physical Injury
2 stages in the development of a crime:
1. Internal acts
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2. External acts
a. Preparatory acts - ordinarily not
punishable except when
considered by law as independent
crimes
(e.g. Art. 304, Possession of
picklocks and similar tools)
b. Acts of Execution - punishable under
the RPC
Requisites:
1. Two or more persons come to an agreement
2. For the commission of a felony
3. And they decide to commit it
Concepts of Conspiracy:
1. As a crime in itself
Ex: conspiracy to commit rebellion,
insurrection, treason, sedition, coup d etat
2. Merely as a means to commit a crime
Requisites:
a. a prior and express agreement
b. participants acted in concert or
simultaneously, which is indicative of
a meeting of the minds towards a
common criminal objective
Note: Conspiracy to commit a felony is different from
conspiracy as a manner of incurring criminal liability.
General Rule: Conspiracy to commit a felony is not
punishable since it is merely a preparatory act.
Exception: when the law specifically provides for
a penalty
Ex: rebellion, insurrection, sedition, coup d
etat
General Rule: The act of one is the act of all.
Exception: Unless one or some of the
conspirators committed some other crime which
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Exception to the exception: When the act
constitutes an indivisible offense.
OVERT ACTS IN CONSPIRACY MUST
CONSIST OF:
1. Active participation in the actual
commission of the crime itself, or
2. Moral assistance to his co-conspirators by
being present at the time of the
commission of the crime, or
3. Exerting a moral ascendance over the
other co-conspirators by moving them to
execute or implement the criminal plan
People v. Abut, et al. (GR No. 137601, April 24,
2003)
1 month and 1 day to 6 years
3. Light felonies - arresto menor (1 day to 30
days)
ART. 10: OFFENSES NOT SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE
General Rule: RPC provisions are supplementary to
special laws.
Exceptions:
1. when special law provides otherwise
2. when provision of RPC are impossible of
application, either by express provision
or by necessary implication

Special Laws RPC

PROPOSAL TO COMMIT A FELONY Terms imprisonment prision
Requisites: correccional,
1. A person has decided to commit a felony prision mayor,
2. And proposes its execution to some other arresto mayor,
person or persons
etc.
Attempted or General Rule: Not Punishable
Frustrated punishable
Conspiracy Proposal Stages Exception: Unless
Elements Agreement to person decides to otherwise stated
commit AND commit a crime Plea of guilty as No Yes
commission AND proposes the mitigating
same to another circumstance
Crimes Conspiracy to Proposal to Minimum, Not applicable Yes
commit: sedition, commit: treason, medium and
treason, rebellion, rebellion, coup d maximum
coup d etat etat periods
Penalty for General Rule: Yes
*no proposal to accessory or None
commit sedition accomplice Exception: Unless
otherwise stated

Provisions of RPC applicable to special laws:

ART. 9: GRAVE FELONIES, LESS GRAVE
FELONIES AND LIGHT FELONIES
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1. To determine whether the felonies can be
complexed or not.
2. To determine the prescription of the crime
and of the penalty.
Penalties (imprisonment):
1. Grave felonies afflictive penalties: 6 yrs.
and 1 day to reclusion perpetua (life)
2. Less grave felonies correctional penalties:
Art. 16 Participation of Accomplices
Art. 22 Retroactivity of Penal laws if favorable
to the accused
Art. 45 Confiscation of instruments used in
the crime
Note: When the special law adopts the penalties
imposed in the RPC i.e. penalties as reclusion
perpetua, prision correccional, etc. the provisions of
the RPC on imposition of penalties based on stages
of execution, degree of participation and attendance
of mitigating and aggravating circumstance may be
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Chapter Two
JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES
AND CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH EXEMPT
FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY
ART. 11. JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES
JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES where the act of
a person is in accordance with law such that said
person is deemed not to have violated the law.
General Rule: No criminal and civil liability incurred.
Exception: There is civil liability with respect to
par. 4 where the liability is borne by persons
benefited by the act.
Par. 1 Self-defense
Elements:
1. Unlawful Aggression
indispensable requirement
There must be actual physical assault or
aggression or an immediate and
imminent threat, which must be offensive
and positively strong.
The defense must have been made
during the existence of aggression,
otherwise, it is no longer justifying.
While generally an agreement to fight
does not constitute unlawful aggression,
violation of the terms of the agreement to
fight is considered an exception.
2. Reasonable necessity of the means
employed to prevent or repel it
Test of reasonableness depends on:
(1) weapon used by aggressor
(2) physical condition, character, size
and other circumstances
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(3) physical condition, character, size
and circumstances of person
defending himself
(4) place and occasion of assault
3. Lack of sufficient provocation on the part
of the person defending himself
NOTE: Perfect equality between the weapons used,
nor material commensurability between the means of
attack and defense by the one defending himself and
that of the aggressor is not required
REASON: the person assaulted does not have
sufficient opportunity or time to think and calculate.
Rights included in self-defense:
1. defense of person
2. defense of rights protected by law
3. defense of property (only if there is also an
actual and imminent danger on the person of
the one defending)
4. defense of chastity
Kinds of Self-Defense:
1. self-defense of chastity there must be an
attempt to rape the victim
2. defense of property must be coupled with
an attack on the person of the owner, or on
one entrusted with the care of such property.
People v. Narvaez, (GR No. L-33466-67,
April 20, 1983)
Attack on property alone was deemed
sufficient to comply with element of
unlawful aggression
3. self-defense in libel justified when the
libel is aimed at a persons good name.
Stand ground when in the right - the law does
not require a person to retreat when his assailant is
rapidly advancing upon him with a deadly weapon.
NOTE: Under Republic Act 9262 (Anti-Violence
Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004),
victim-survivors who are found by the Courts to be
suffering from Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) do
not incur any criminal or civil liability despite absence
of the necessary elements for the justifying
circumstance of self-defense in the RPC. BWS is a
scientifically defined pattern of psychological and
behavioral symptoms found in women living in
battering relationships as a result of cumulative
abuse.
Par. 2 Defense of Relative
Elements:
1. unlawful aggression (indispensable
requirement)
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2. reasonable necessity of the means employed
to prevent or repel it
3. In case the provocation was given by the
person attacked, the one making the defense
had no part in such provocation.
Relative entitled to the defense:
1. spouse
2. ascendants
3. descendants
4. legitimate, natural or adopted brothers and
sisters, or relatives by affinity in the same
degrees
th
5. relatives by consanguinity within the 4 civil
degree
NOTE: The relative defended may be the original
aggressor. All that is required to justify the act of the
relative defending is that he takes no part in such
provocation.
Par. 3 Defense of Stranger
Elements:
1. unlawful aggression (indispensable
requirement)
2. reasonable necessity of the means employed
to prevent or repel it
3. person defending be not induced by revenge,
resentment or other evil motive
Par. 4 State of Necessity (Avoidance of Greater
Evil or Injury)
Elements:
1. evil sought to be avoided actually exists
2. injury feared be greater than that done to
avoid it
3. no other practical and less harmful means of
preventing it
NOTE: The necessity must not be due to the
negligence or violation of any law by the actor.
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Elements:
1. accused acted in the performance of duty or
in the lawful exercise of a right or office
2. the injury caused or offense committed be
the necessary consequence of the due
performance of the duty, or the lawful
exercise of such right or office.
NOTE: The accused must prove that he was duly
appointed to the position claimed he was discharging
at the time of the commission of the offense. It must
also be shown that the offense committed was the
necessary consequence of such fulfillment of duty, or
lawful exercise of a right or office.
Par. 6 Obedience to a Superior Order
Elements:
1. an order has been issued
2. order has a lawful purpose (not patently
illegal)
3. means used by subordinate to carry out said
order is lawful
NOTE: The superior officer giving the order cannot
invoke this justifying circumstance. Good faith is
material, as the subordinate is not liable for carrying
out an illegal order if he is not aware of its illegality
and he is not negligent.
General Rule: Subordinate cannot invoke this
circumstance when order is patently illegal.
Exception: When there is compulsion of an
irresistible force, or under impulse of
uncontrollable fear.
ART. 12: CIRCUMSTANCES, WHICH EXEMPT
FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY
EXEMPTING CIRCUMSTANCES grounds for
exemption from punishment because there is wanting
in the agent of the crime any of the conditions which
make the act voluntary or negligent.
Basis: The exemption from punishment is based on
the complete absence of intelligence, freedom of
action, or intent, or on the absence of negligence on
the part of the accused.
Burden of proof: Any of the circumstances is a
matter of defense and must be proved by the
defendant to the satisfaction of the court.
Justifying Exempting
Who/what Act Actor
is
affected?
Nature of act is considered act is wrongful but
act legal actor not liable
Existence None Yes, but since
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of a crime voluntariness is absent the consequences of the unlawful act, which is shown
the actor is not liable by the:
Liability No criminal and civil No criminal liability but 1. manner the crime was committed
liability BUT there is there is civil liability 2. conduct of the offender after its commission
civil liability as to EXCEPT as to Art.
NOTE: Under R.A. 9344 a minor over 15 but but
Art.11(4) (state of 12(4) (injury by mere
below 18 who acted without discernment is
necessity) accident) and (7)
exempt from criminal liability
(lawful cause)
Par. 4 Accident without fault or intention of
Par. 1 Imbecility or Insanity causing it

IMBECILE one while advanced in age has a mental Elements:

development comparable to that of children between
2 and 7 years old. He is exempt in all cases from
criminal liability.
INSANE one who acts with complete deprivation of
intelligence/reason or without the least discernment
or with total deprivation of freedom of will. Mere
abnormality of the mental faculties will not exclude
imputability.
General Rule: Exempt from criminal liability
Exception: The act was done during a lucid
interval.
NOTE: Defense must prove that the accused was
insane at the time of the commission of the crime
because the presumption is always in favor of sanity.
1. A person is performing a lawful act
2. with due care
3. He causes injury to another by mere accident
4. Without fault or intention of causing it.
Par. 5 Irresistible Force
IRRESISTIBLE FORCE offender uses violence or
physical force to compel another person to commit a
crime.
Elements:
1. The compulsion is by means of physical
force.
2. The physical force must be irresistible.
3. The physical force must come from a third
person.

NOTE: Force must be irresistible so as to reduce the

Par. 2 Under Nine Years of Age
Requisite: Offender is under 9 years of age at the
time of the commission of the crime. There is
absolute criminal irresponsibility in the case of a
minor under 9 years of age.
NOTE: Under R.A. 9344 or the Juvenile Justice And
Welfare Act a minor 15 years and below is exempt
from criminal liability
individual to a mere instrument.
Par. 6 Uncontrollable Fear
UNCONTROLLABLE FEAR offender employs
intimidation or threat in compelling another to commit
a crime.
DURESS use of violence or physical force

Par. 3 Person Over 9 and Under 15 Acting Elements:

Without Discernment
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2. It promises an evil of such gravity and
NOTE: Such minor must have acted without imminence that an ordinary man would have
discernment to be exempt. If with discernment, he is succumbed to it.
criminally liable.
NOTE: Duress to be a valid defense should be based
Presumption: The minor committed the crime on real, imminent or reasonable fear for ones life or
without discernment. limb. It should not be inspired by speculative, fanciful
or remote fear. A threat of future injury is not enough.
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NOT a bar to Accused will be acquitted

accuseds prosecution
ACTUS ME INVITO FACTUS NON EST MEUS and conviction
ACTUS Any act done by me against my will is not
my act. NOT an absolutory Absolutory cause
cause
PAR 7. Insuperable Cause

INSUPERABLE CAUSE some motive, which has

lawfully, morally or physically prevented a person to Chapter Three
do what the law commands CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MITIGATE CRIMINAL
LIABILITY
Elements:
1. An act is required by law to be done.
2. A person fails to perform such act.
3. His failure to perform such act was due to
some lawful or insuperable cause. Privileged Mitigating Ordinary Mitigating
Offset by any Cannot be offset Can be offset by a
Ex: aggravating generic aggravating
1. A priest cant be compelled to reveal what circumstance circumstance
was confessed to him. Effect on Effect of imposing the If not offset, has the
2. No available transportation officer not liable penalty penalty by 1 or 2 effect of imposing the
for arbitrary detention degrees lower than minimum period of
3. Mother who was overcome by severe
that provided by law the penalty
dizziness and extreme debility, leaving child
to die not liable for infanticide (People v. Kinds Minority, Incomplete Those
Bandian, 63 Phil 530) (Sources) Self-defense, two or circumstances
more mitigating enumerated in
ABSOLUTORY CAUSES where the act committed circumstance without paragraph 1 to 10 of
is a crime but for some reason of public policy and any aggravating Article 13
sentiment, there is no penalty imposed. Exempting circumstance (has the
and justifying circumstances are absolutory causes. effect of lowering the
Examples of such other circumstances are: penalty by one
1. spontaneous desistance (Art. 6) degree). Art. 64, 68
2. accessories exempt from criminal liability and 69
(Art. 20)
3. Death or physical injuries inflicted under
exceptional circumstances (Art. 247)
Age Criminal Responsibility/ Effect
4. persons exempt from criminal liability from
theft, swindling, malicious mischief (Art 332) 15years Absolute irresponsibility, exempting
5. instigation circumstance
* as amended by RA 9344
NOTE: Entrapment is NOT an absolutory cause. A 15 < and < Conditional responsibility
buy-bust operation conducted in connection with 18 Without discernment not criminally
illegal drug-related offenses is a form of entrapment. liable
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Entrapment Instigation * as amended by RA 9344
The ways and means Instigator practically induces the Minor Sentence is suspended
are resorted to for the would-be accused into the delinquent
purpose of trapping commission of the offense and 18 and 70 Full responsibility
and capturing the himself becomes a co-principal
lawbreaker in the
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> 70 Mitigated responsibility, no imposition of This provision addresses the intention of the offender
death penalty, execution of death at the particular moment when the offender executes
sentence may be suspended and or commits the criminal act, not to his intention during
commuted the planning stage

NOTE: In crimes against persons if victim does not

die, the absence of the intent to kill reduces the
felony to mere physical injuries. It is not considered
as mitigating. It is mitigating only when the victim
ART. 13: MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
dies.

MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES those which if NOTE: It is not applicable to felonies by negligence

present in the commission of the crime reduces the
penalty of the crime but does not erase criminal
liability nor change the nature of the crime
NOTE: A mitigating circumstance arising from a
single fact absorbs all the other mitigating
circumstances arising from that same fact.
because in felonies through negligence, the offender
acts without intent. The intent in intentional felonies is
replaced by negligence or imprudence. There is no
intent on the part of the offender, which may be
considered as diminished
Par. 4 Provocation or Threat

Provocation any unjust or improper conduct or act

Par. 1 Incomplete Justifying or Exempting of the offended party, capable of exciting, inciting or
Circumstances irritating anyone.

NOTE: This applies when not all the requisites are Provocation Vindication
present. Made directly only to the Grave offense may be also
If two requisites are present, it is considered a person committing the against the offenders
privileged mitigating circumstance. However, in felony relatives mentioned by law
reference to Art.11(4) if any of the last two requisites
is absent, there is only an ordinary mitigating Cause that brought Offended party must have
circumstance. Remember though, that in self-
about the provocation done a grave offense to the
defense, defense of relative or stranger, unlawful
need not be a grave offender or his relatives
aggression must always be present as it is an
indispensable requirement. offense
Necessary that May be proximate. Time
provocation or threat interval allowed
Par. 2 Under 18 or Over 70 Years Old immediately preceded
the act. No time interval
NOTE: Age of accused is determined by his age at
the date of commission of crime, not date of trial.
Requisites:
1. provocation must be sufficient
Par. 3 No Intention to Commit so Grave a
2. it must originate from the offended party
Wrong
3. must be immediate to the commission of the
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act and its consequences. strong. Otherwise, it would be an unlawful
aggression, which may give rise to self-defense and
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3rd person
Par. 5 Vindication of Grave Offense Must come from lawful sentiments Unlawful

Requisites: PASSION & OBFUSCATION PROVOCATION

1. a grave offense done to the one committing Produced by an impulse which Comes from injured
the felony, his spouse, ascendants, may be caused by provocation party
descendants, legitimate, natural or adopted
brothers or sisters or relatives by affinity Offense which engenders Immediately precede
within the same degrees perturbation of mind need not be the commission of the
2. the felony is committed in immediate immediate. It is only required that crime
vindication of such grave offense the influence thereof lasts until
the crime is committed
NOTE: Immediate allows for a lapse of time, as
long as the offender is still suffering from the mental Effect is loss of reason and self- Same
agony brought about by the offense to him. control on the part of the offender
(proximate time, not just immediately after)

Par. 7 Surrender and Confession of Guilt

Par. 6 Passion or Obfuscation
VOLUNTARY VOLUNTARY
Requisites: SURRENDER PLEA OF GUILT
1. offender acted upon an impulse Requisites: 1. offender not 1. offender
2. the impulse must be so powerful that it actually arrested spontaneously
naturally produced passion or obfuscation in 2. offender confessed his
him
surrendered to guilt
NOTE: Act must have been committed not in the person in 2. confession was
spirit of lawlessness or revenge; act must come from authority made in open
lawful sentiments. 3. surrender was court, that is,
voluntary before the
Act, Which Gave Rise To Passion And competent court
Obfuscation: that is to try the
1. That there be an act, both unlawful and case
unjust 3. confession of guilt
2. The act be sufficient to produce a condition was made prior to
of mind the presentation
3. That the act was proximate to the criminal of the evidence
act, not admitting of time during which the for the
perpetrator might recover his normal
prosecution
equanimity
4. The victim must be the one who caused the
passion or obfuscation WHEN SURRENDER VOLUNTARY
- must be spontaneous, showing the intent of the
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2. he wishes to save them the trouble and
expense necessarily incurred in his search
PASSION & OBFUSCATION IRRESISTIBLE
and capture.
FORCE
Mitigating Exempting NOTE: If both are present, considered as two
No physical force needed Requires physical independent mitigating circumstances. Further
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NOTES: extreme poverty, similar to

plea made after arraignment and after trial incomplete justification based on
has begun does not entitle accused to the state of necessity
mitigating circumstance
If accused pleaded not guilty, even if during
arraignment, he is entitled to mitigating
circumstance as long as he withdraws his
plea of not guilty to the charge before the CHAPTER FOUR
fiscal could present his evidence. CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AGGRAVATE
Plea to a lesser charge is not a Mitigating CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Circumstance because to be such, the plea
of guilt must be to the offense charged.
Plea to the offense charged in the amended
info, lesser than that charged in the original AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES Those which,
info, is Mitigating Circumstance. if attendant in the commission of the crime, serve to
have the penalty imposed in its maximum period
provided by law for the offense or those that change
Par. 8 Physical Defect of Offender
the nature of the crime.

The offender is deaf and dumb, blind or otherwise BASIS: The greater perversity of the offender
suffering from some physical defect, restricting his manifested in the commission of the felony as shown
means of action, defense or communication with by:
others. 1. the motivating power itself,
2. the place of the commission,
NOTE: The physical defect must relate to the offense 3. the means and ways employed
committed. 4. the time, or
5. the personal circumstances of the offender,
or the offended party.
Par. 9 Illness of the Offender

Requisites: KINDS OF AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES:

1. The illness of the offender must diminish the 1. Generic - those which apply to all crimes
exercise of his will-power. 2. Specific - those which apply only to specific
2. Such illness should not deprive the offender crimes,
of consciousness of his acts. 3. Qualifying - those that change the nature of
the crime
Par. 10 Similar and Analogous Circumstances 4. Inherent - which of necessity accompany
the commission of the crime, therefore not
considered in increasing the penalty to be
imposed
Examples Not examples
5. Special - those which arise under special
defendant who is 60 years old killing the wrong conditions to increase the penalty of the
with failing eyesight is similar to a person offense and cannot be offset by mitigating
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analogous to vindication of grave voluntary surrender AGGRAVATING AGGRAVATING
CIRCUMSTANCE CIRCUMSTANCE
offense
EFFECT : When not set EFFECT: Gives the
impulse of jealous feeling, similar running amuck is not off by any mitigating crime its proper and
to passion and obfuscation mitigating circumstance, exclusive name and
Increases the penalty places the author of
voluntary restitution of property, which should be the crime in such a
similar to voluntary surrender imposed upon the situation as to
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maximum period but penalty than that act of all, regardless of lack of knowledge of the
without exceeding the specially prescribed facts constituting the circumstance. (Art. 62, par.
limit prescribed by law by law for said 4)
crimes (People v.
Bayot, 64Phil269, 5. Aggravating circumstances, regardless of its
273) kind, should be specifically alleged in the
If not alleged in the To be considered information AND proved as fully as the crime
information, a as such, MUST be itself in order to increase the penalty. (Sec. 9,
qualifying aggravating alleged in the Rule 110, 2000 Rules of Criminal Procedure)
circumstance will be information
considered generic 6. When there is more than one qualifying
May be offset by a Cannot be offset by a aggravating circumstance present, one of them
mitigating circumstance. mitigating will be appreciated as qualifying aggravating
circumstance while the others will be considered as generic
aggravating.
RULES ON AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES:
1. Aggravating circumstances shall NOT be
appreciated if: ART. 14: AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES
a) They constitute a crime specially
punishable by law, or
b) It is included by the law in defining a crime Par. 1. That advantage be taken by the offender of
with a penalty prescribed, and therefore his public position
shall not be taken into account for the
purpose of increasing the penalty. Requisites:
Ex: That the crime be committed by means of 1. Offender is public officer
fire,explosion (Art. 14, par. 12) is in itself a 2. Public officer must use the influence,
crime of arson (Art. 321) or a crime involving prestige, or ascendancy which his office
destruction (Art. 324). It is not to be considered to gives him as means to realize criminal
increase the penalty for the crime of arson or for purpose
the crime involving destruction.
It is not considered as an aggravating
2. The same rule shall apply with respect to any circumstance where taking advantage of official
aggravating circumstance inherent in the crime to position is made by law an integral element of the
such a degree that it must of necessity crime or inherent in the offense,
accompany the commission thereof(Art.62, par.2) Ex: malversation (Art. 217), falsification of a
document committed by public officers (Art.
3. Aggravating circumstances which arise: 171).
a) From the moral attributes of the offender; When the public officer did not take advantage of
b) From his private relations with the offended the influence of his position, this aggravating
party; or circumstance is not present
c) From any personal cause, NOTE : Taking advantage of a public position is
also inherent in the case of accessories under
shall only serve to aggravate the liability of the Art. 19, par. 3 (harboring, concealing, or assisting
principals, accomplices and accessories as to in the escape of the principal of the crime), and in
whom such circumstances are attendant. (Art.
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4. The circumstances which consist :
a) In the material execution of the act, or
b) In the means employed to accomplish it,
shall serve to aggravate the liability of only those
persons who had knowledge of them at the time
of the execution of the act or their cooperation
therein. Except when there is proof of conspiracy
in which case the act of one is deemed to be the
Par. 2. That the crime be committed in contempt
of or with insult to public authorities
Requisites:
1. That the public authority is engaged in the
exercise of his functions.
2. That he who is thus engaged in the exercise
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3. The offender knows him to be a public
authority.
4. His presence has not prevented the offender
from committing the criminal act.
PERSON IN AUTHORITY public authority, or
person who is directly vested with jurisdiction and has
the power to govern and execute the laws
Ex:
1. Governor
2. Mayor
3. Barangay captain/ chairman
4. Councilors
5. Government agents
6. Chief of Police
NOTE: A teacher or professor of a public or
recognized private school is not a public authority
within the contemplation of this paragraph. While he
is a person in authority under Art. 152, that status is
only for purposes of Art. 148 (direct assault) and Art.
152 (resistance and disobedience).
The crime should not be committed against the
public authority (otherwise it will constitute direct
assault under Art.148)
This is NOT applicable when committed in the
presence of a mere agent.
AGENT subordinate public officer charged w/ the
maintenance of public order and protection and
security of life and property
Ex: barrio vice lieutenant, barrio councilman
Par. 3. That the act be committed:
(1) with insult or in disregard of the respect
due the offended party on account of his
(a)rank, (b) age, or (c) sex or
(2) that it be committed in the dwelling of the
offended party, if the latter has not given
provocation
Rules regarding par 3(1):
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2. Rank, age, sex may be taken into account
only in crimes against persons or honor, they
cannot be invoked in crimes against property.
3. It must be shown that in the commission of
the crime the offender deliberately intended
to offend or insult the sex, age and rank of
the offended party.
RANK The designation or title of distinction used to
fix the relative position of the offended party in
reference to others (There must be a difference in the
social condition of the offender and the offended
party).
AGE may refer to old age or the tender age of the
victim.
SEX refers to the female sex, not to the male sex.
The AC of disregard of rank, age, or sex is not
applicable in the following cases:
1. When the offender acted with passion and
obfuscation.
2. When there exists a relationship between the
offended party and the offender.
3. When the condition of being a woman is
indispensable in the commission of the
crime.
(Ex: in parricide, abduction, seduction
and rape)
People vs. Lapaz, March 31, 1989
Disregard of sex and age are not absorbed in
treachery because treachery refers to the manner of
the commission of the crime, while disregard of sex
and age pertains to the relationship of the victim.
DWELLING must be a building or structure
exclusively used for rest and comfort (combination of
house and store not included), may be temporary as
in the case of guests in a house or bedspacers. It
includes dependencies, the foot of the staircase and
the enclosure under the house
NOTES:
The aggravating circumstance of dwelling
requires that the crime be wholly or partly
committed therein or in any integral part thereof.
Dwelling does not mean the permanent
residence or domicile of the offended party or
that he must be the owner thereof. He must,
however, be actually living or dwelling therein
even for a temporary duration or purpose.
It is not necessary that the accused should have
actually entered the dwelling of the victim to
commit the offense; it is enough that the victim
was attacked inside his own house, although the
assailant may have devised means to perpetrate
the assault from without.
What aggravates the commission of the crime in
ones dwelling:
1. The abuse of confidence which the offended
party reposed in the offender by opening the
door to him; or
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2. The violation of the sanctity of the home by 5. The victim is not a dweller of the house.
trespassing therein with violence or against
the will of the owner. Par. 4. That the act be committed with:
(1) abuse of confidence or
Meaning of provocation in the aggravating (2) obvious ungratefulness
circumstance of dwelling:
The provocation must be: There are two aggravating circumstances present
1. Given by the owner of the dwelling, under par.4 which must be independently
2. Sufficient, and appreciated if present in the same case
3. Immediate to the commission of the crime. While one may be related to the other in the factual
situation in the case, they cannot be lumped
NOTE: If all these conditions are present, the together. Abuse of confidence requires a special
offended party is deemed to have given the confidential relationship between the offender and
provocation, and the fact that the crime is committed the victim, while this is not required for there to be
in the dwelling of the offended party is NOT an obvious ungratefulness
aggravating circumstance.
REASON: When it is the offended party who has Requisites Of Abuse Of Confidence:
provoked the incident, he loses his right to the 1. That the offended party had trusted the
respect and consideration due him in his own offender.
house. 2. That the offender abused such trust by
committing a crime against the offended
party.
Dwelling is not aggravating in the following
3. That the abuse of confidence facilitated the
cases:
commission of the crime.
1. When both the offender and the offended
party are occupants of the same house, and
NOTE: Abuse of confidence is inherent in
this is true even if offender is a servant in the
malversation (Art. 217), qualified theft (Art. 310),
house.
estafa by conversion or misappropriation (Art. 315),
exception: In case of adultery in the
and qualified seduction (Art. 337).
conjugal dwelling, the same is
aggravating. However, if the paramour
Requisites of obvious ungratefulness:
also dwells in the conjugal dwelling, the
1. That the offended party had trusted the
applicable aggravating circumstance is
offender;
abuse of confidence.
2. That the offender abused such trust by
committing a crime against the offended
2. When robbery is committed by the use of
party.
force upon things, dwelling is not aggravating
3. That the act be committed with obvious
because it is inherent.
ungratefulness.
However, dwelling is aggravating in
NOTE: The ungratefulness contemplated by par. 4
robbery with violence against or
must be such clear and manifest ingratitude on the
intimidation of persons because this class
part of the accused.
of robbery can be committed without the
necessity of trespassing the sanctity of the
Par. 5. That the crime be committed in the palace
offended partys house.
of the Chief Executive, or in his presence, or
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discharge of their duties, or in a place
inherent or included by law in defining the
dedicated to religious worship.
crime.
Actual performance of duties is not necessary
4. When the owner of the dwelling gave
when crime is committed in the palace or in the
sufficient and immediate provocation.
presence of the Chief Executive
There must exist a close relation between
the provocation made by the victim and the
Requisites Regarding Public Authorities:
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2. public authorities are actually performing
their public duties
PAR. 5. Where public PAR. 2. Contempt or
authorities are engaged insult to public
in the discharge of their authorities
duties
FOR BOTH, Public authorities are in the performance
of their duties
Place where public duty is performed
In their office. Outside of their office.
The offended party
May or may not be the Public authority should
public authority not be the offended
party
Requisites (Place Dedicated To Religious
Worship):
1. The crime occurred in a place dedicated to
the worship of God regardless of religion
2. The offender must have decided to commit
the crime when he entered the place of
worship
Except for the third which requires that official
functions are being performed at the time of the
commission of the crime, the other places
mentioned are aggravating per se even if no
official duties or acts of religious worship are
being conducted there.
Cemeteries, however respectable they may be,
are not considered as place dedicated to the
worship of God.
Par. 6. That the crime be committed
(1) in the nighttime, or
(2) in an uninhabited place, or
(3) by a band,
whenever such circumstance may facilitate
the commission of the offense
NOTE: When present in the same case and their
element are distinctly palpable and can subsist
independently, they shall be considered separately.
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When nighttime, uninhabited place or band
aggravating:
1. When it facilitated the commission of the
crime; or
2. When especially sought for by the offender to
insure the commission of the crime or for the
purpose of impunity; or
3. When the offender took advantage thereof
for the purpose of impunity
NIGHTTIME (obscuridad) that period of darkness
beginning at the end of dusk and ending at dawn.
Commission of the crime must begin and be
accomplished in the nighttime. When the
place of the crime is illuminated by light,
nighttime is not aggravating. It is not
considered aggravating when the crime
began at daytime.
Nighttime is not especially sought for when
the notion to commit the crime was
conceived of shortly before commission or
when crime was committed at night upon a
casual encounter
However, nighttime need not be specifically
sought for when (1) it facilitated the
commission of the offense, or (2) the
offender took advantage of the same to
commit the crime
A bare statement that crime was committed
at night is insufficient. The information must
allege that nighttime was sought for or taken
advantage of, or that it facilitated the crime
GENERAL RULE: Nighttime is absorbed in
treachery.
EXCEPTION: Where both the treacherous mode
of attack and nocturnity were deliberately decided
upon in the same case, they can be considered
separately if such circumstances have different
factual bases. Thus:
In People vs. Berdida, et. al. (June 30,
1966), nighttime was considered since it was
purposely sought, and treachery was further
appreciated because the victims hands and
arms were tied together before he was
beaten up by the accused.
In People vs. Ong, et. al. (Jan. 30, 1975),
there was treachery as the victim was
stabbed while lying face up and defenseless,
and nighttime was considered upon proof
that it facilitated the commission of the
offense and was taken advantage of by the
accused.
UNINHABITED PLACE (despoblado) one where
there are no houses at all, a place at a considerable
distance from town, where the houses are scattered
at a great distance from each other
Solitude must be sought to better attain the
criminal purpose
What should be considered here is whether in the
place of the commission of the offense, there was
a reasonable possibility of the victim receiving
some help.
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BAND (en cuadrilla) whenever there are more
than 3 armed malefactors that shall have acted
together in the commission of an offense
NOTE: There must be four or more armed men
If one of the four-armed malefactors is a principal
by inducement, they do not form a band because
it is undoubtedly connoted that he had no direct
participation.
By a band is aggravating in crimes against
property or against persons or in the crime of
illegal detention or treason but does not apply to
crimes against chastity
By a band is inherent in brigandage
This aggravating circumstance is absorbed in the
circumstance of abuse of superior strength
Par. 7. That the crime be committed on the
occasion of a conflagration, shipwreck,
earthquake, epidemic or other calamity or
misfortune.
Requisites:
1. The crime was committed when there was a
calamity or misfortune
2. The offender took advantage of the state of
confusion or chaotic condition from such
misfortune
If the offended was PROVOKED by the offended
party during the calamity/misfortune, this
aggravating circumstance may not be taken into
consideration.
Par. 8.That the crime be committed with the aid of
(1) armed men or
(2) persons who insure or afford impunity
Requisites:
1. That armed men or persons took part in the
commission of the crime, directly or
indirectly.
2. That the accused availed himself of their aid
or relied upon them when the crime was
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NOTE: This aggravating circumstance requires that
the armed men are accomplices who take part in a
minor capacity directly or indirectly, and not when
they were merely present at the crime scene. Neither
should they constitute a band, for then the proper
aggravating circumstance would be cuadrilla.
When This Aggravating Circumstance Shall Not
Be Considered:
1. When both the attacking party and the party
attacked were equally armed.
2. When the accused as well as those who
cooperated with him in the commission of the
crime acted under the same plan and for the
same purpose.
3. When the others were only casually present
and the offender did not avail himself of any
of their aid or when he did not knowingly
count upon their assistance in the
commission of the crime
Par. 6 By a band Par. 8. With the aid of
armed men
As to their number
Requires more than three At least two
armed malefactors (i.e.,
at least four)
As to their action
Requires that more than This circumstance is
three armed malefactors present even if one of the
shall have acted together offenders merely relied on
in the commission of an their aid, for actual aid is
offense. not necessary.
If there are four armed men, aid of armed men is
absorbed in employment of a band. If there are
three armed men or less, aid of armed men may
be the aggravating circumstance.
Aid of armed men includes armed women.
Par. 9. That the accused is a recidivist
RECIDIVIST one who at the time of his trial for one
crime, shall have been previously convicted by final
judgment of another crime embraced in the same title
of the RPC.
Requisites:
1. That the offender is on trial for an offense;
2. That he was previously convicted by final
judgment of another crime;
3. That both the first and the second offenses
are embraced in the same title of the Code;
4. That the offender is convicted of the new
offense.
MEANING OF at the time of his trial for one
crime.
It is employed in its general sense, including the
rendering of the judgment. It is meant to include
everything that is done in the course of the trial, from
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arraignment until after sentence is announced by the
judge in open court.
What is controlling is the TIME OF THE TRIAL,
not the time of the commission of the offense.
GENERAL RULE: To prove recidivism, it is
necessary to allege the same in the information and
to attach thereto certified copy of the sentences
rendered against the accused.
Exception: If the accused does not object and
when he admits in his confession and on the
witness stand.
Recidivism must be taken into account no matter
how many years have intervened between the
first and second felonies.
Amnesty extinguishes the penalty and its effects.
However, pardon does not obliterate the fact that
the accused was a recidivist. Thus, even if the
accused was granted a pardon for the first
offense but he commits another felony embraced
in the same title of the Code, the first conviction
is still counted to make him a recidivist
Being an ordinary aggravating circumstance,
recidivism affects only the periods of a penalty,
except in prostitution and vagrancy (Art. 202) and
gambling (PD 1602) wherein recidivism increases
the penalties by degrees. No other generic
aggravating circumstance produces this effect
In recidivism it is sufficient that the succeeding
offense be committed after the commission of the
preceding offense provided that at the time of his
trial for the second offense, the accused had
already been convicted of the first offense.
If both offenses were committed on the same
date, they shall be considered as only one,
hence, they cannot be separately counted in
order to constitute recidivism. Also, judgments of
convicted handed down on the same day shall be
considered as only one conviction.
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his trial for one crime the accused shall have
been previously convicted by final judgment of
the other.
Par. 10. That the offender has been previously
punished for an offense to which the law
attaches an equal or greater penalty or for
two or more crimes to which it attaches a
lighter penalty.
Requisites Of Reiteracion Or Habituality:
1. That the accused is on trial for an offense;
2. That he previously served sentence for
another offense to which the law attaches an
a) Equal or
b) Greater penalty, or
c) For two or more crimes to which it
attaches a lighter penalty than that
for the new offense; and
3. That he is convicted of the new offense
HABITUALITY RECIDIVISM
As to the first offense
It is necessary that the It is enough that a
offender shall have final judgment has
served out his been rendered in the
sentence for the first first offense.
offense
As to the kind of offenses involved
The previous and Requires that the
subsequent offenses offenses be included
must not be em in the same title of the
braced in the same Code.
title of the Code.
THE FOUR FORMS OF REPETITION ARE:
1. Recidivism (par. 9, Art. 14) Where a person,
on separate occasions, is convicted of two offenses
embraced in the same title in the RPC. This is a
generic aggravating circumstance.
2. Reiteracion or Habituality (par. 10, Art. 14)
Where the offender has been previously punished for
an offense to which the law attaches an equal or
greater penalty or for two crimes to which it attaches
a lighter penalty. This is a generic aggravating
circumstance.
3. Multi-recidivism or Habitual delinquency (Art.
62, par, 5) Where a person within a period of ten
years from the date of his release or last conviction of
the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries,
robbery, theft, estafa or falsification, is found guilty of
the said crimes a third time or oftener. This is an
extraordinary aggravating circumstance.
4. Quasi-recidivism (Art. 160) Where a person
commits felony before beginning to serve or while
serving sentence on a previous conviction for a
felony. This is a special aggravating circumstance.
Since reiteracion provides that the accused has
duly served the sentence for his previous
conviction/s, or is legally considered to have
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done so, quasi-recidivism cannot at the same
time constitute reiteracion, hence this
aggravating circumstance cannot apply to a
quasi-recidivist.
If the same set of facts constitutes recidivism and
reiteracion, the liability of the accused should be
aggravated by recidivism which can easily be
proven.
Par. 11. That the crime be committed in
consideration of price, reward or promise.
Requisites:
1. There are at least 2 principals:
The principal by inducement (one who
offers)
The principal by direct participation
(accepts)
2. The price, reward, or promise should be
previous to and in consideration of the
commission of the criminal act
NOTE: The circumstance is applicable to both
principals .It affects the person who received the
price / reward as well as the person who gave it.
If without previous promise it was given
voluntarily after the crime had been committed as
an expression of his appreciation for the
sympathy and aid shown by the other accused, it
should not be taken into consideration for the
purpose of increasing the penalty.
The price, reward or promise need not consist of
or refer to material things or that the same were
actually delivered, it being sufficient that the offer
made by the principal by inducement be
accepted by the principal by direct participation
before the commission of the offense.
The inducement must be the primary
consideration for the commission of the crime.
Par. 12. That the crime be committed by means of
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of a vessel or intentional damage thereto,
derailment of a locomotive, or by use of any
artifice involving great waste and ruin
The circumstances under this paragraph will only
be considered as aggravating if and when they
are used by the offender as a means to
accomplish a criminal purpose
When another aggravating circumstance already
qualifies the crime, any of these aggravating
circumstances shall be considered as generic
aggravating circumstance only
When used as a means to kill another person,
the crime is qualified to murder.
PAR. 12 by means PAR. 7 on the
of inundation, fire, occasion of a
etc. conflagration,
shipwreck, etc.
The crime is The crime is committed
committed by means on the occasion of a
of any such acts calamity or misfortune.
involving great waste
or ruin.
Par. 13. That the act be committed with evident
premeditation
Requisites:
The prosecution must prove
1. The time when the offender determined to
commit the crime;
2. An act manifestly indicating that the culprit
has clung to his determination; and
3. A sufficient lapse of time between the
determination and execution, to allow him to
reflect upon the consequences of his act and
to allow his conscience to overcome the
resolution of his will.
Essence of premeditation: The execution of the
criminal act must be preceded by cool thought and
reflection upon the resolution to carry out the criminal
intent during the space of time sufficient to arrive at a
calm judgment.
To establish evident premeditation, it must be
shown that there was a period sufficient to afford
full opportunity for meditation and reflection, a
time adequate to allow the conscience to
overcome the resolution of the will, as well as
outward acts showing the intent to kill. It must be
shown that the offender had sufficient time to
reflect upon the consequences of his act but still
persisted in his determination to commit the
crime. (PEOPLE vs. SILVA, et. al., GR No.
140871, August 8, 2002)
Premeditation is absorbed by reward or promise.
When the victim is different from that intended,
premeditation is not aggravating. However, if the
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offender premeditated on the killing of any
person, it is proper to consider against the
offender the aggravating circumstance of
premeditation, because whoever is killed by him
is contemplated in his premeditation.
Par. 14. That (1) craft, (2) fraud, or (3) disguise be
employed.
Requisite
The offender must have actually used craft, fraud, or
disguise to facilitate the commission of the crime.
CRAFT (astucia) involved the use of intellectual
trickery or cunning on the part of the accused.
A chicanery resorted to by the accused to aid in the
execution of his criminal design. It is employed as a
scheme in the execution of the crime.
FRAUD (fraude) insidious words or machinations
used to induce the victim to act in a manner which
would enable the offender to carry out his design.
FRAUD CRAFT
Where there is a direct The act of the
inducement by insidious accused done in
words or machinations, order not to arouse
fraud is present. the suspicion of the
victim constitutes
craft.
Craft and fraud may be absorbed in treachery if
they have been deliberately adopted as the
means, methods or forms for the treacherous
strategy, or they may co-exist independently
where they are adopted for a different purpose in
the commission of the crime.
Ex:
In People vs. San Pedro (Jan. 22, 1980),
where the accused pretended to hire the
driver in order to get his vehicle, it was held
that there was craft directed to the theft of the
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In People vs. Masilang (July 11, 1986) there
was also craft where after hitching a ride, the
accused requested the driver to take them to
a place to visit somebody, when in fact they
had already planned to kill the driver.
DISGUISE (disfraz) resorting to any device to
conceal identity.
The test of disguise is whether the device or
contrivance resorted to by the offender was
intended to or did make identification more
difficult, such as the use of a mask or false hair or
beard.
The use of an assumed name in the publication
of a libel constitutes disguise.
Par. 15. That (1) advantage be taken of superior
strength, or (2) means be employed to
weaken the defense.
Par. 15 contemplates two aggravating circumstances,
either of which qualifies a killing to murder.
MEANING OF advantage be taken:
To deliberately use excessive force that is out of
proportion to the means for self-defense available to
the person attacked. (PEOPLE vs. LOBRIGAS, et.
al., GR No. 147649, December 17, 2002)
No Advantage Of Superior Strength In The
Following:
1. One who attacks another with passion and
obfuscation does not take advantage of his
superior strength.
2. When a quarrel arose unexpectedly and the
fatal blow was struck at a time when the
aggressor and his victim were engaged
against each other as man to man.
TEST for abuse of superior strength: the
relative strength of the offender and his victim
and whether or not he took advantage of his
greater strength.
When there are several offenders participating in
the crime, they must ALL be principals by direct
participation and their attack against the victim
must be concerted and intended to be so.
kill the Abuse of superior strength is inherent in the
crime of parricide where the husband kills the
wife. It is generally accepted that the husband is
physically stronger than the wife.
Abuse of superior strength is also present when
the offender uses a weapon which is out of
proportion to the defense available to the
offended party.
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BY A BAND ABUSE OF directly and specially to insure its execution without

SUPERIOR risk to himself arising from the defense which the
STRENGTH offended party might make.
The element of The gravamen of
Requisites:
band is appreciated abuse of superiority
1. That at the time of the attack, the victim was
when the offense is is the taking
not in a position to defend himself; and
committed by more advantage by the
2. That the offender consciously adopted the
than three armed culprits of their
particular means, method or form of attack
malefactors collective strength to
employed by him.
regardless of the overpower their
comparative relatively weaker
TEST: It is not only the relative position of the parties
strength of the victim or victims.
but, more specifically, whether or not the victim was
victim or victims.
forewarned or afforded the opportunity to make a
Hence, what is taken defense or to ward off the attack.
into account here is
not the number of Rules Regarding Treachery:
aggressors nor the 1. Applicable only to crimes against persons.
fact that they are 2. Means, methods or forms need not insure
armed, but their accomplishment of crime.
relative physical 3. The mode of attack must be consciously
strength vis-a vis the adopted.
offended party.
Treachery is taken into account even if the crime
against the person is complexed with another
NOTE: Abuse of superior strength absorbs cuadrilla felony involving a different classification in the
(band). Code. Accordingly, in the special complex crime
of robbery with homicide, treachery but can be
MEANING OF Means employed to weaken appreciated insofar as the killing is concerned.
defense - the offender employs means that
materially weaken the resisting power of the offended The suddenness of attack in itself does not
party. constitute treachery, even if the purpose was to
kill, so long as the decision was made all of a
Ex: sudden and the victims helpless position was
1. Where one, struggling with another, suddenly accidental.
throws a cloak over the head of his opponent
and while in this situation he wounds or kills Treachery applies in the killing of a child even if
him. the manner of attack is not shown.
2. One who, while fighting with another,
suddenly casts sand or dirt upon the latter Treachery must be proved by clear and
eyes and then wounds or kills him. convincing evidence
3. When the offender, who had the intention to
kill the victim, made the deceased Treachery is considered against all the offenders
intoxicated, thereby materially weakening the when there is conspiracy.
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1. When the aggression is continuous,
person and property, such as robbery with treachery must be present in the beginning of
physical injuries or homicide. the assault. (PEOPLE vs. MANALAD, GR
No. 128593, August 14, 2002)
Par. 16. That the act be committed with treachery
(alevosia) Thus, even if the deceased was shot
while he was lying wounded on the
TREACHERY when the offender commits any of ground, it appearing that the firing of the
the crimes against the person, employing means, shot was a mere continuation of the
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wounded, with no appreciable time TREACHERY ABUSE OF MEANS

intervening between the delivery of the SUPERIOR EMPLOYED TO
blows and the firing of the shot, it cannot STRENGTH WEAKEN
be said that the crime was attended by DEFENSE
treachery. Means, methods Offender does Means are
or forms are not employ employed but it
2. When the assault was not continuous, in
employed by the means, only materially
that there was interruption, it is sufficient that
treachery was present at the moment the offender to make it methods or weakens the
fatal blow was given. impossible or hard forms of attack, resisting power of
for the offended he only takes the offended
Hence, even though in the inception of party to put any advantage of his party
the aggression which ended in the death sort of resistance superior
of the deceased, treachery was not strength
present, if there was a break in the
continuity of the aggression and at the
time of the fatal wound was inflicted on Par. 17. That means be employed or
the deceased he was defenseless, the circumstances brought about which add
circumstance of treachery must be taken ignominy to the natural effects of the act
into account.
IGNOMINY is a circumstance pertaining to the
Treachery Should Be Considered Even If: moral order, which adds disgrace and obloquy to the
1. The victim was not predetermined but there material injury caused by the crime.
was a generic intent to treacherously kill any
first two persons belonging to a class. (The MEANING OF which add ignominy to the natural
same rule obtains for evident premeditation). effects thereof
The means employed or the circumstances brought
2. There was aberratio ictus and the bullet hit a about must tend to make the effects of the crime
person different from that intended. (The rule more humiliating to victim or to put the offended party
is different in evident premeditation). to shame, or add to his moral suffering. Thus it is
incorrect to appreciate ignominy where the victim was
3. There was error in personae, hence the already dead when his body was dismembered, for
victim was not the one intended by the such act may not be considered to have added to the
accused. (A different rule is applied in victims moral suffering or humiliation. (People vs.
evident premeditation). Carmina, G.R. No. 81404, January 28, 1991)

REASON FOR THE RULE: When there is Applicable to crimes against chastity, less
treachery, it is impossible for either the intended serious physical injuries, light or grave
victim or the actual victim to defend himself coercion, and murder.
against the aggression.
Par. 18. That the crime be committed after an
TREACHERY ABSORBS: unlawful entry.
1. Craft
2. Abuse of superior strength UNLAWFUL ENTRY - when an entrance is effected
3. Employing means to weaken the defense by a way not intended for the purpose.
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6. Nighttime entrance and not for escape.

REASON FOR AGGRAVATION:

One who acts, not respecting the walls erected by
men to guard their property and provide for their
personal safety, shows a greater perversity, a greater
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Par. 19. That as a means to the commission of a
crime, a wall, roof, floor, door, or window be
broken.
Applicable only if such acts were done by
the offender to effect ENTRANCE. If the
wall, etc., is broken in order to get out of the
place, it is not an aggravating circumstance.
It is NOT necessary that the offender should
have entered the building Therefore, If the
offender broke a window to enable himself to
reach a purse with money on the table near
that window, which he took while his body
was outside of the building, the crime of theft
was attended by this aggravating
circumstance.
PAR. 19 PAR. 18
It involves the breaking Presupposes that there
(rompimiento) of the is no such breaking as
enumerated parts of by entry through the
the house. window.
NOTE: Breaking in is lawful in the following
instances:
1. An officer, in order to make an arrest, may
break open a door or window of any building
in which the person to be arrested is or is
reasonably believed to be;
2. An officer, if refused admittance, may break
open any door or window to execute the
search warrant or liberate himself,
3. Replevin, Section 4, Rule 60 of the Rules of
Court
Par. 20. That the crime be committed
(1) with the aid of persons under fifteen (15)
years of age, or
(2) by means of motor vehicles, airships, or
other similar means.
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1. With the aid of persons under fifteen years of
age:
Intends to repress, so far as possible, the
frequent practice resorted to by professional
criminals to avail themselves of minors taking
advantage of their irresponsibility.
2. By means of motor vehicles, airships, or
other similar means:
Intended to counteract the great facilities
found by modern criminals in said means to
commit crime and flee and abscond once the
same is committed.
Use of motor vehicle is aggravating where
the accused purposely and deliberately used
the motor vehicle in going to the place of the
crime, in carrying away the effects thereof,
and in facilitating their escape.
MEANING OF or other similar means
Should be understood as referring to motorized
vehicles or other efficient means of transportation
similar to automobile or airplane.
Par. 21. That the wrong done in the commission
of the crime be deliberately augmented by
causing other wrong not necessary for its
commission
CRUELTY there is cruelty when the culprit enjoys
and delights in making his victim suffer slowly and
gradually, causing unnecessary physical pain in the
consummation of the criminal act.
Requisites:
1. That the injury caused be deliberately
increased by causing other wrong;
2. That the other wrong be unnecessary for the
execution of the purpose of the offender.
Cruelty is not inherent in crimes against persons.
In order for it to be appreciated, there must be
positive proof that the wounds found on the body
of the victim were inflicted while he was still alive
in order unnecessarily to prolong physical
suffering.
Cruelty cannot be presumed
If the victim was already dead when the acts of
mutilation were being performed, this would also
qualify the killing to murder due to outraging of
his corpse.
IGNOMINY (PAR.17) CRUELTY (PAR. 21)
Involves MORAL Refers to PHYSICAL
suffering suffering
Unlike mitigating circumstances (par. 10, Art.
13), there is NO provision for aggravating
circumstances of a similar or analogous
character.
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CHAPTER FIVE
ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES
ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES Those
which must be taken into consideration as
aggravating or mitigating according to the
nature and effects of the crime and the other
conditions attending its commission.
ART.15 Concept of Alternative Circumstances
BASIS:
The nature and effects of the crime and the other
conditions attending its commission.
THE ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE:
1. Relationship;
2. Intoxication; and
3. Degree of instruction and education of the
offender.
RELATIONSHIP
The alternative circumstance of relationship shall be
taken into consideration when the offended party is
the
1. Spouse,
2. Ascendant,
3. Descendant,
4. Legitimate, natural, or adopted brother or
sister, or
5. Relative by affinity in the same degree of the
offender.
Other Relatives Included (By Analogy):
1. The relationship of stepfather or stepmother
and stepson or stepdaughter.
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care and protection.
2. The relationship of adopted parent and
adopted child.
NOTE: But the relationship of uncle and niece is not
covered by any of the relationship mentioned.
When Relationship Mitigating And When
Aggravating:
1. As a rule, relationship is mitigating in crimes
against property, by analogy to the provisions of
Art. 332.
Thus, relationship is mitigating in the crimes
of robbery (Arts. 294-302), usurpation (Art.
312), fraudulent insolvency (Art. 314) and
arson (Arts. 321-322, 325-326).
2. In crimes against persons
a) It is aggravating where the offended party is
a relative of
I. a higher degree than the offender, or
II. when the offender and the offended party
are relatives of the same level (e.g.
brothers)
b) But when it comes to physical injuries:
i. It is aggravating when the crime
involves serious physical injuries (Art.
263), even if the offended party is a
descendant of the offender. But the
serious physical injuries must not be
inflicted by a parent upon his child by
excessive chastisement.
ii. It is mitigating when the offense
committed is less serious physical
injuries or slight physical injuries, if the
offended party is a relative of a lower
degree.
iii. It is aggravating if the offended party is
a relative of a higher degree of the
offender.
c) When the crime is homicide or murder,
relationship is aggravating even if the victim
of the crime is a relative of a lower degree.
d) In rape, relationship is aggravating where a
stepfather raped his stepdaughter or in a
case where a father raped his own daughter.
3. In crimes against chastity, like acts of
lasciviousness (Art. 336), relationship is always
affection, aggravating, regardless of whether the offender
is a relative of a higher or lower degree of the
offended party.
When the qualification given to the crime is
derived from the relationship between the
offender and the offended party, it is neither
mitigating nor aggravating, because it is
inseparable from and inherent in the offense.
(e.g. parricide, adultery and concubinage).
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INTOXICATION
When Intoxication Mitigating And When
Aggravating:
1. Mitigating
i. If intoxication is not habitual, or
ii. If intoxication is not subsequent to the plan to
commit a felony.
2. Aggravating
i. If intoxication is habitual, or
ii. If it is intentional (subsequent to the plan to
commit a felony).
To Be Entitled To The Mitigating Circumstance Of
Intoxication, It Must Be Shown:
1. That at the time of the commission of the
criminal act, the accused has taken such
quantity of alcoholic drinks as to blur his
reason and deprive him of a certain degree
of control, and
2. That such intoxication is not habitual, or
subsequent to the plan to commit the felony.
To be mitigating, the accuseds state of
intoxication must be proved. Once
intoxication is established by satisfactory
evidence, in the absence of proof to the
contrary, it is presumed to be non-habitual or
unintentional.
INSTRUCTION OR EDUCATION
As an alternative circumstance it does not
refer only to literacy but more to the level of
intelligence of the accused.
Refers to the lack or presence of sufficient
intelligence and knowledge of the full
significance of ones acts.
Low degree of instruction and education
or lack of it is generally mitigating. High
degree of instruction and education is
aggravating, when the offender took
advantage of his learning in committing the
crime.
GENERAL RULE: Lack of sufficient education is
mitigating.
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1. Crimes against property (e.g. arson,
estafa, theft, robbery)
2. Crimes against chastity, and
3. Treason because love of country
should be a natural feeling of every
citizen, however unlettered or uncultured
he may be.
TITLE TWO
PERSONS CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR
FELONIES
ART.16.WHO ARE CRIMINALLY LIABLE
Note that accessories are not liable for light
felonies. REASON: In the commission of light
felonies, the social wrong as well as the
individual prejudice is so small that penal
sanction is unnecessary.
The classification of the offenders as principal,
accomplice or an accessory is essential under
the RPC. The classification maybe applied to
special laws only if the latter provides for the
same graduated penalties as those provided
under the RPC.
There Are Two Parties In All Crimes:
1. Active subject (the criminal)
Art. 16 enumerates the active subjects
of the crime.
2. Passive subject (the injured party)
Is the holder of the injured right: the
man, the juristic person, the group, and
the State.
Note: Only natural persons can be the
active subject of crime because of the
highly personal nature of the criminal
responsibility.
However, corporation and partnership
can be a passive subject of a crime.
GENERALLY: Corpses and animals
cannot be passive subjects because
they have no rights that may be
injured.
EXCEPTION: Under Art. 253, the
crime of defamation may be
committed if the imputation tends to
blacken the memory of one who is
dead.
This article applies only when the
offenders are to be judged by their
individual, and not collective, liability.
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ART.17.PRINCIPALS
THREE TYPES OF PRINCIPALS:
1. Principal by DIRECT PARTICIPATION
(par.1)
2. Principal by INDUCTION (par.2)
3. Principal by INDISPENSABLE
COOPERATION (par.3)
Par. 1 Principals by direct participation
Requisites:
1. That they participated in the criminal
resolution; and (conspiracy)
2. That they carried out their plan and
personally took part in its execution by acts
which directly tended to the same end.
NOTE: If the second element is missing, those who
did not participate in the commission of the acts of
execution cannot be held criminally liable, unless the
crime agreed to be committed is treason, sedition,
coup d etat or rebellion.
MEANING OF personally took part in its
execution
That the principal by direct participation must
be at the scene of the commission of the
crime, personally taking part in its execution.
Under conspiracy, although he was not
present in the scene of the crime, he is
equally liable as a principal by direct
participation.
Ex: One serving as guard pursuant to the
conspiracy is a principal by direct
participation
CONSPIRACY there is unity of purpose and
intention.
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Mere knowledge or approval is insufficient
It is not necessary that there be formal
agreement
Conspiracy is implied when the accused had a
common purpose and were united in execution.
Unity of purpose and intention in the commission
of the crime may be shown in the following
cases:
1. Spontaneous agreement at the moment of
the commission of the crime
2. Active cooperation by all the offenders in the
perpetration of the crime
3. Contribution by positive acts to the realization
of a common criminal intent
4. Presence during the commission of the crime
by a band and lending moral support thereto.
While conspiracy may be implied from the
circumstances attending the commission of the
crime, it is nevertheless a rule that conspiracy
must be established by positive and conclusive
evidence.
NOTES:
Conspirator is not liable for the crimes of the
others which are not the object of the conspiracy
nor are logical or necessary consequences
thereof
Regarding multiple rape each rapist is liable for
anothers crime because each cooperated in the
commission of the rapes perpetrated by the
others
EXCEPTION: in the crime of murder w/
treachery all the offenders must at least
know that there will be treachery in executing
the crime or cooperate therein.
No such thing as conspiracy to commit an
offense through negligence. However, special
laws may make one a co-principal.
Conspiracy is negated by the acquittal of co-
defendant.
Par. 2 Principals by induction
Requisites:
1. That the inducement be made directly with
the intention of procuring the commission of
the crime; and
2. That such inducement be the determining
cause of the commission of the crime by the
material executor.
One cannot be held guilty of having instigated the
commission of the crime without first being
shown that the crime was actually committed (or
attempted) by another.
Thus, there can be no principal by inducement
(or by indispensable cooperation) unless there is
a principal by direct participation. But there can
be a principal by direct participation without a
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principal by inducement (or by indispensable If the person who actually committed the crime
cooperation). had reason of his own to commit the crime, it
cannot be said that the inducement was
influential in producing the criminal act.
Two Ways Of Becoming Principal By Induction:
1. By directly forcing another to commit a crime PRINCIPAL BY OFFENDER WHO
by : INDUCEMENT MADE PROPOSAL TO
a) Using irresistible force. COMMIT A FELONY
b) Causing uncontrollable fear.
In these cases, there is no conspiracy, not In both
even a unity of criminal purpose and
intention. Only the one using the force or
causing the fear is criminally liable. The There is an inducement to commit a crime
material executor is not criminally liable When liable
because of Art. 12, pars. 5 and 6
(exempting circumstances)
Becomes liable only The mere proposal to
2. By directly inducing another to commit a when the crime is commit a felony is
crime by committed by the punishable in treason or
a) Giving of price, or offering of reward or principal by direct rebellion. However, the
promise. participation. person to whom the
The one giving the price or offering the proposal is made should
reward or promise is a principal by not commit the crime,
inducement while the one committing the
crime in consideration thereof is a principal Otherwise, the proponent
by direct participation. There is collective becomes a principal by
criminal responsibility. inducement.
What kind of crime involved
b) Using words of command
The person who used the words of Involves any crime The proposal to be
command is a principal by inducement punishable must involve
while the person who committed the crime only treason or rebellion.
because of the words of command is a
principal by direct participation. There is
also collective criminal responsibility. Effects Of Acquittal Of Principal By Direct
Participation Upon Liability Of Principal By
Requisites for words of command to be Inducement:
considered inducement:
1. Conspiracy is negatived by the acquittal of co-
1. Commander has the intention of procuring
the commission of the crime defendant.
2. Commander has ascendancy or influence
2. One cannot be held guilty of having instigated the
3. Words used be so direct, so efficacious, so
powerful commission of a crime without first being shown
4. Command be uttered prior to the commission that the crime has been actually committed by
another.
5. Executor had no personal
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NOTE: Words uttered in the heat of anger and in the participation is acquitted because he acted
without criminal intent or malice, his acquittal
nature of the command that had to be obeyed do not
make one an inductor. is not a ground for the acquittal of the
principal by inducement.
The inducement must precede the act induced
and must be so influential in producing the REASON FOR THE RULE: In exempting
criminal act that without it, the act would not have circumstances, such as when the act is not
voluntary because of lack of intent on the
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committed, only that the accused is not a
criminal.
Par. 3 Principal by indispensable
cooperation
Requisites:
1. Participation in the criminal resolution, that is,
there is either anterior conspiracy or unity of
criminal purpose and intention immediately
before the commission of the crime charged;
and
2. Cooperation in the commission of the offense
by performing another act, without which it
would not have been accomplished.
MEANING OF cooperation in the commission of
the offense
To desire or wish in common a thing. But that
common will or purpose does not necessarily mean
previous understanding, for it can be explained or
inferred from the circumstances of each case.
NOTE: If the cooperation is not indispensable,
the offender is only an accomplice.
Collective Criminal Responsibility:
This is present when the offenders are criminally
liable in the same manner and to the same
extent. The penalty to be imposed must be the
same for all.
Principals by direct participation have collective
criminal responsibility. Principals by induction,
(except those who directly forced another to
commit a crime) and principals by direct
participation have collective criminal
responsibility. Principals by indispensable
cooperation have collective criminal
responsibilities with the principals by direct
participation.
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In the absence of any previous conspiracy,
unity of criminal purpose and intention
immediately before the commission of the
crime, or community of criminal design, the
criminal responsibility arising from different acts
directed against one and the same person is
considered as individual and not collective, and
each of the participants is liable only for the act
committed by him.
QUASI-COLLECTIVE criminal responsibility:
Some of the offenders in the crime are principals and
the others are accomplices.
ART.18.ACCOMPLICES
ACCOMPLICES - Persons who do not act as
principals but cooperate in the execution of the
offense by previous and simultaneous acts, which are
not indispensable to the commission of the crime.
They act as mere instruments that perform acts not
essential to the perpetration of the offense
Requisites: (the following must concur)
1. That there be community of design; that is,
knowing the criminal design of the principal
by direct participation, he concurs with the
latter his purpose;
2. That he cooperates in the execution of the
offense by previous or simultaneous acts,
with the intention of supplying material or
moral aid in the execution of the crime in an
efficacious way; and
3. That there be a relation between the acts
done by the principal and those attributed to
the person charged as an accomplice.
NOTES:
Before there could be an accomplice, there
must be a principal by direct participation.
The person charged as an accomplice should
not have inflicted a mortal wound. If he inflicted
a mortal wound, he becomes a principal by
direct participation.
In case of doubt, the participation of the
offender will be considered that of an
accomplice rather than that of a principal.
ART.19.ACCESSORIES
Accessories are those who:
1. having knowledge of the commission of the
crime, and
2. without having participated therein either as
principals or accomplices, take part
subsequent to its commission in any of the
following acts:
a. By profiting themselves or assisting the
offender to profit by the effects of the
crime.
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b. Assisting the offender to profit by the
effects of the crime.
c. By concealing or destroying the body of
the crime to prevent its discovery.
In profiting by the effects of the crime, the accessory
must receive the property from the principal. He
should not take it without the consent of the principal.
If he took it without the consent of the principal, he is
not an accessory but a principal in the crime of theft.
EXAMPLE:
PAR. 1 - person received and used property from
another, knowing it was stolen
PAR. 2 - placing a weapon in the hand of the
dead who was unlawfully killed to plant evidence,
or burying the deceased who was killed by the
principals
PAR. 3 - a) public officers who harbor, conceal or
assist in the escape of the principal of any crime
(not light felony) with abuse of his public
functions
b) private persons who harbor, conceal or assist
in the escape of the author of the crime guilty of
treason, parricide, murder or an attempt against
the life of the President, or who is known to be
habitually guilty of some crime.
GENERAL RULE: If the Principal is acquitted the
Accessory is also acquitted. The responsibility of the
accessory is subordinate to that of the principal in a
crime
Exception: When the crime was in fact
committed by the principal, but the principal is
covered by exempting circumstances (Art 12)
and as a result he is not held liable. However, it is
possible that the accessory may still be held
liable even if the principal was acquitted by an
exempting circumstance
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principal because the criminal responsibilities are
distinct from each other
Two classes of accessories contemplated in par.
3 of art. 19
1. PUBLIC officers, who harbor, conceal or
assist in the escape of the principal of any
crime (not light felony) with abuse of his
public functions.
Requisites:
1. The accessory is a public officer.
2. He harbors, conceals, or assists in the
escape of the principal.
3. The public officer acts with abuse of his
public functions.
4. The crime committed by the principal is
any crime, provided it is not a light felony.
2. PRIVATE persons who harbor, conceal or
assist in the escape of the author of the crime
who is guilty of treason, parricide, murder, or
attempts against the life of the President, or
who is known to be habitually guilty of some
other crime.
Requisites:
1. The accessory is a private person.
2. He harbors, conceals or assists in the
escape of the author of the crime.
3. The crime committed by the principal is
either:
a. Treason,
b. Parricide,
c. Murder,
d. An attempt against the life of the
President, or
e. That the principal is known to be
habitually guilty of some other crime.
Neither the letter nor the spirit of the law requires
that the principal be convicted before one may be
punished as an accessory. As long as the corpus
delicti is proved and the accessorys participation
as such is shown, he can be held criminally
responsible and meted out the corresponding
penalty (Inovero vs. Coronel, CA, 65 O.G.
3160).
The prescribed acts of the accessory under par.
2 must have been intended to prevent the
discovery of the crime, hence, mere silence does
not make one an accessory. If, however, the
crime involved is a conspiracy to commit treason,
his silence may hold him liable for misprision of
treason (Art. 116) but as a principal thereof.
Where the accused misleads the authorities by
giving them false information, such act is
equivalent to concealment and he should be held
as an accessory.
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3. descendant, or
PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY 4. legitimate, natural or adopted brother, sister
or relative by affinity within the same degree.
Takes direct part or cooperates Does NOT take direct
in, or induces the commission part or cooperates in, or
Accessory Is Not Exempt From Criminal Liability
of the crime induces the commission Even If The Principal Is Related To Him, If Such
of the crime Accessory
cooperates in the commission does not take part in the
of the offense by acts either commission of the 1. profited by the effects of the crime, or
2. assisted the offender to profit by the effects
prior thereto or simultaneous offense
of the crime.
therewith
REASON: Because such acts are prompted not by
Participates during commission Participation of the affection but by a detestable greed.
of the crime accessory in all cases
always SUBSEQUENT
to the commission of the NOTES:
crime Nephew and Niece not included
Public officer contemplated in par. 3 of Art. 19 is
exempt by reason of relationship to the principal,
even if such public officer acted with abuse of his
official functions.
ANTI-FENCING LAW OF 1979
REASON: Ties of blood or relationship
PRES. DECREE 1612 constitutes a more powerful incentive than the
call of duty.
P.D. 1829 penalizes the act of any person who
FENCING is an act, with intent to gain, of buying, knowingly or willfully obstructs, impedes, frustrates or
selling, receiving, possessing, keeping, or in any delays the apprehension of suspects and the
other manner dealing in anything of value which a investigation and prosecution of criminal cases.
person knows or should have known to be derived
from the proceeds of the crime of robbery or theft. The benefits of the exception in Art. 20 do
not apply to PD 1829.
FENCE is a person who commits the act of fencing.
A fence who receives stolen property as above-
provided is not an accessory but a principal in the
TITLE THREE
crime defined in and punished by the Anti-Fencing
PENALTIES
Law.
Mere possession of anything of value which has been
the subject of robbery or theft shall be prima facie
evidence of fencing.

Chapter One : PENALTIES IN GENERAL

ART.20.ACCESSORIES WHO ARE EXEMPT FROM
CRIMINAL LIABILITY

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the ties of blood and the preservation of the
cleanliness of ones name, which compels one to Different Juridical Conditions Of Penalty:
conceal crimes committed by relatives so near as
those mentioned in this article. 1. Must be productive of suffering, without
however affecting the integrity of the human
personality.
AN ACCESSORY IS EXEMPT FROM CRIMINAL LIABLITY 2. Must be commensurate with the offense
WHEN THE PRINCIPAL IS HIS : different crimes must be punished with
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3. Must be personal no one should be
punished for the crime of another.
4. Must be legal it is the consequence of a
judgment according to law.
5. Must be certain no one may escape its
effects.
6. Must be equal for all.
7. Must be correctional.
Purpose Of The State In Punishing Crimes
The State has an existence of its own to maintain, a
conscience to assert, and moral principles to be
vindicated. Penal justice must therefore be exercised
by the State in the service and satisfaction of a duty,
and rests primarily on the moral rightfulness of the
punishment inflicted (to secure justice). The basis of
the right to punish violations of penal law is the police
power of the State.
Theories Justifying Penalty:
1. Prevention to prevent or suppress the
danger to the State arising from the criminal
act of the offender.
2. Self-defense so as to protect society from
the threat and wrong inflicted by the criminal.
3. Reformation the object of punishment in
criminal cases is to correct and reform the
offender.
4. Exemplarity the criminal is punished to
serve as an example to deter others from
committing crimes.
5. Justice that crime must be punished by the
State as an act of retributive justice, a
vindication of absolute right and moral law
violated by the criminal.
Three-Fold Purpose Of Penalty Under The Code:
1. Retribution or expiation the penalty is
commensurate with the gravity of the offense.
2. Correction or reformation shown by the rules
which regulate the execution of the penalties
consisting in deprivation of liberty.
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to recidivists and habitual delinquents.
ART.21.PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED
RULE: A felony shall be punishable only by the
penalty prescribed by law at the time of its
commission. (Art. 21 simply announces the policy of
the state as regards punishment of crimes)
REASON: Because a law cannot be rationally
obeyed unless it is first shown, and a man cannot be
expected to obey an order that has not been given.
It is a guaranty to the citizens of this country
that no act will be considered criminal until
the Government has made it so by law and
has provided a penalty.
Subsidiary penalty for a crime cannot be
imposed, if it was not prescribed by law prior
to its commission (US vs. Macasaet
11Phil.447)
ART.22.RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF PENAL LAWS
NOTE: According to Reyes, Art. 22 is NOT applicable
to the provisions of the RPC. Its application to the
RPC can only be invoked where some former or
subsequent law is under consideration.
GENERAL RULE: Penal laws are applied
prospectively.
EXCEPTION: When retrospective application will
be favorable to the person guilty of a felony;
Provided that:
1. The offender is NOT a habitual criminal
(delinquent) under Art. 62(5);
2. The new or amendatory law does NOT
provide against its retrospective application.
The favorable retroactive effect of a new law may
find the defendant in one of the 3 situations:
1. The crime has been committed and the
prosecution begins
2. The sentence has been passed but service
has not begun
3. The sentence is being carried out
HABITUAL DELINQUENT - A person who, within a
period of ten years from the date of his release or last
conviction of the crimes of serious or less serious
physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa, or falsification,
is found guilty of any said crimes a third time or
oftener.
EX POST FACTO LAW - An act which when
committed was not a crime, cannot be made so by
statute without violating the constitutional inhibition as
to ex post facto laws. An ex post facto law is one
which:
1. Makes criminal an act done before the
passage of the law and which was innocent
when done;
2. Aggravates a crime, or makes it greater
than it was, when committed;
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3. Changes the punishment and inflicts a
greater punishment than the law annexed
to the crime when committed;
4. Alters the legal rules of evidence, and
authorizes conviction upon a less or different
testimony than the law required at the time of
the commission of the offense;
5. Assumes to regulate civil rights and
remedies only, in effect imposing a penalty
or deprivation of a right for something which
when done was lawful; and
6. Deprives a person accused of a crime of
some lawful protection to which he has
become entitled, such as the protection of a
former conviction or acquittal, or a
proclamation of amnesty.
If retroactive effect of a new law is justified, it
shall apply to the defendant even if he is:
1. presently on trial for the offense;
2. has already been sentenced but service
of which has not begun; or
3. already serving sentence
The retroactive effect of criminal statutes does
NOT apply to the culprits civil liability.
REASON: The rights of offended persons or
innocent third parties are not within the gift of
arbitrary disposal of the State.
The provisions of Art. 22 are applicable even to
special laws which provide more favorable
conditions to the accused.
New law may provide that its provisions not to be
applied to cases already filed in court at the time
of the approval of such law.
Criminal liability under the repealed
SUBSISTS:
1. When the provisions of the former law are
reenacted; or
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2. When the repeal is by implication; or
(Note: When a penal law, which impliedly
repealed an old law, is itself repealed, the repeal
of the repealing law revives the prior penal law,
unless the language of the repealing statute
provides otherwise. If the repeal is absolute,
criminal liability is obliterated.)
3. When there is a saving clause.
BILL OF ATTAINDER A legislative act which
inflicts punishment without trial.
ART.23.EFFECT OF PARDON BY THE OFFENDED
PARTY
GENERAL RULE: Pardon by the offended party
does not extinguish the criminal liability of the
offender. REASON: A crime committed is an offense
against the State. Only the Chief Executive can
pardon the offenders.
EXCEPTION: Pardon by the offended party will
bar criminal prosecution in the following crimes:
Adultery and Concubinage (Art. 344,
RPC)
EXPRESS or IMPLIED pardon must
be given by offended party to BOTH
offenders.
Pardon must be given PRIOR to
institution of criminal action.
Seduction, Abduction, Acts of
Lasciviousness (Art. 344, RPC)
- EXPRESS pardon given by offended
party or her parents or grandparents
or guardian
- Pardon must be given PRIOR to the
institution of the criminal action.
However, marriage between the
offender and the offended party
EVEN AFTER the institution of the
criminal action or conviction of the
offender will extinguish the criminal
action or remit the penalty already
law imposed against the offender, his co-
principals, accomplices and
accessories after the fact.
Rape (as amended by R.A. 8353)
committed
if the - The subsequent valid marriage
between the offender and the
offended party shall extinguish
criminal liability or the penalty
imposed. In case the legal husband
is the offender, subsequent
forgiveness by the wife as offended
party shall also produce the same
effect.
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NOTE: 192, PD No. 603) and for the purposes

specified therein.
Pardon by the offended party under Art. 344 is
3. Suspension from the employment or public
ONLY A BAR to criminal prosecution; it is NOT
office during the trial or in order to institute
a ground for extinguishment of criminal liability.
proceedings.
It DOES NOT extinguish criminal liability. It is
4. Fines and other corrective measures which,
not one of the causes that totally extinguish
in the exercise of their administrative or
criminal liability in Art 89
disciplinary powers, superior officials may
Nevertheless, civil liability may be extinguished
impose upon their subordinates.
by the EXRESS WAIVER of the offended
5. Deprivation of rights and the reparations
party.Civil liability w/ regard to the interest of
which the civil law may establish in penal
the injured party is extinguished by the latters
form.
express waiver because personal injury may
be repaired through indemnity. Waiver must be
express. State has no reason to insist on its Reasons why they are not penalties:
payment.
1. Because they are not imposed as a result of
judicial proceedings. Those mentioned in
AN OFFENSE CAUSES TWO CLASSES OF paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 are merely preventive
INJURIES: measures before conviction of offenders.
2. The offender is not subjected to or made to suffer
SOCIAL INJURY PERSONAL INJURY these measures in expiation of or as punishment
Produced by the Caused to the victim of the for a crime.
disturbance and crime who suffered
alarm which are the damage either to his Note: Those in par 1, 3 and 4 are merely preventive
outcome of the person, to his property, to measures before the conviction of offenders.
offense. his honor or to her
chastity. Par. 1 refers to accused persons who are
detained by reason of insanity or imbecility.
It does not refer to the confinement of an
Is sought to be Is repaired through insane or imbecile who has not been
repaired through the indemnity. arrested for a crime. It
imposition of the
corresponding Paragraphs 3 and 4 refer to administrative
penalty. suspension and administrative fines and not
The offended party The offended party may to suspension or fine as penalties for
cannot pardon the waive the indemnity and violations of the RPC. Fines in par. 4 do not
offender so as to the State has no reason to constitute as penalties because they are not
relieve him of the insist in its payment. imposed by the court.
penalty.
The deprivations of rights established in
penal form by the civil laws is illustrated in
ART.24.MEASURES OF PREVENTION the case of parents who are deprived of their
OR SAFETY, WHICH ARE NOT CONSIDERED parental authority if found guilty of the crime
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The Following Shall Not Be Considered As
Penalties: Where a minor offender was committed to a
1. The arrest and temporary detention of reformatory pursuant to Art. 80 (now, PD
accused persons, as well as their detention 603), and while thus detained he commits a
by reason of insanity or imbecility, or illness crime therein, he cannot be considered a
requiring their confinement in a hospital. quasi-recidivist since his detention was only
2. The commitment of a minor to any of the a preventive measure, whereas a quasi-
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Distinction between classification of Penalties in
crime during the service of the penalty for a Art. 9 and Art. 26
previous crime. Article 9 Article 26
Affli
Commitment of a minor is not a penalty Applicable in Applicable in determining ctive
because it is not imposed by the court in a determining the the prescriptive period of
judgment. The imposition of the sentence in prescriptive period of penalties over
such a case is suspended. felonies 600
0;
Corr
ART. 26: WHEN AFFLICTIVE, CORRECTIONAL, ecti
OR LIGHT PENALTY onal 201 to 6000; Light 200 and less

Fines:
1. Afflictive over 6000
2. Correctional 201 to 6000
3. Light 200 and less

NOTES:
The classification applies if the fine is imposed
as a single or alternative penalty. Hence, it
does not apply if the fine is imposed together
with another penalty.
Fines are imposed either as alternative (Ex: Art
144 punishing disturbance of proceedings with
arresto mayor or fine from 200 pesos to 1000
pesos) or single (Ex. fine of 200 to 6000 pesos)
Penalty cannot be imposed in the alternative
since it is the duty of the court to indicate the
penalty imposed definitely and positively. Thus,
the court cannot sentence the guilty person in a
manner as such as to pay fine of 1000 pesos,
Chapter Three
or to suffer an imprisonment of 2 years, and to
DURATION AND EFFECTS OF PENALTIES
pay the costs.
If the fine imposed by the law for the felony is
exactly 200 pesos, it is a light felony.
Section One. Duration of Penalties
* People vs. Yu Hai (99 Phil. 725):
Under Art. 9, where the fine in question is
exactly P200, it is a light penalty, thus the Art. 27: RECLUSION PERPETUA
offense is a light felony; whereas under Art. 26,
1. Reclusin perpetua 20 years and 1 day to
it is a correctional penalty, hence the offense
40 years
involved is a less grave felony. It that this
2. Reclusin temporal 12 years and 1 day to
discrepancy should be resolved liberally in
20 years
favor of the accused, hence Art. 9 prevails over
3. Prisin mayor and temporary
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years, except when disqualification is an
Bond to keep the peace is by analogy:
accessory penalty, in which case its duration
is that of the principal penalty
4. Prisin correccional, suspensin, and
destierro 6 months and 1 day to 6 years,
except when suspensin is an accessory
penalty, in which case its duration is that of
the principal penalty
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6. Arresto menor 1 day to 30 days If offender is under preventive imprisonment,

7. Bond to keep the peace The period is rule (c) applies, not rule (a).
discretionary on the court. The offender is entitled to a deduction of the
full time or 4/5 of the time of his detention.
NOTES:
1. Destierro is a principal, divisible and
correctional penalty. ART. 29: PERIOD OF PREVENTIVE
2. Cases when destierro imposed: IMPRISONMENT DEDUCTED FROM TERM OF
a. Serious physical injuries or death IMPRISONMENT
under exceptional circumstances
(Art. 247)
b. In case of failure to give bond for Instances when accused undergoes preventive
good behavior (Art. 284) suspension:
c. As a penalty for the concubine in 1. offense is non-bailable
concubinage (Art. 334) 2. bailable but cant furnish bail
d. In cases where after reducing the
penalty by one or more degrees,
destierro is the proper penalty. Notes:
The full time or 4/5 of the time during which
the offenders have undergone preventive
ART. 28: COMPUTATION OF PENALTIES suspension shall be deducted from the
penalty imposed:
Rules on Computation of Penalties: full time: if the detention prisoner
1. When the offender is in prison the agrees voluntarily in writing to abide
duration of the temporary penalties by the same disciplinary rules
(Permanent Absolute Disqualification, imposed upon convicted prisoners
Temporary Absolute Disqualification, four-fifths of the time: if the
detention, suspension) is from the day on detention prisoner does not agree to
which the judgment of conviction becomes abide by the same disciplinary rules
final. imposed upon convicted prisoners
2. When the offender is not in prison the In the case of a youthful offender who has
duration of the penalty of deprivation of been proceeded against under the Child and
liberty is from the day that the offender is Youth Welfare Code, he shall be credited in
placed at the disposal of judicial authorities the service of his sentence with the full time
for the enforcement of the penalty of his actual detention, regardless if he
3. The duration of the other penalties the agreed to abide by the same disciplinary
duration is from the day on w/c the offender rules of the institution or not.
commences to serve his sentence Offenders not entitled to be credited with the
full time or four-fifths of the time of their
NOTES: preventive imprisonment:
Reason for rule (a) Under Art 24, the arrest Recidivists or those convicted
and temporary detention of the accused is previously twice or more times of any
not considered a penalty. crime.
if in custody, the accused appealed, the Those who, upon being summoned
service of the sentence should commence for the execution of their sentence,
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Service in prison begins only on the day the under a final judgment, not those
judgment of conviction becomes final. who failed or refused to voluntarily
In cases of temporary penalties, and if the surrender after the commission of the
offender is under detention (as when crime)
undergoing preventive imprisonment), rule Habitual Delinquents are not entitled to credit
(a) applies. of time under preventive imprisonment since
If he is not under detention (released on bail), he is necessarily a recidivist or has been
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any crime.
Duration of RP is to be computed at 30
years, thus, even if the accused is sentenced
to life imprisonment, he is entitled to the full
time or 4/5 of the time of preventive
suspension
Credit is given in the service of sentences
consisting of deprivation of liberty
(imprisonment and destierro), whether
perpetual or temporal. Thus, persons who
had undergone preventive imprisonment but
the offense is punishable by a fine only would
not be given credit.
Destierro is considered a deprivation of
liberty.
If the penalty imposed is arresto menor to
destierro, the accused who has been in
prison for 30 days (arresto menor to 30 days)
should be released because although the
maximum penalty is destierro (6 months and
1 day to 6 years), the accused sentenced to
such penalty does not serve it in prison.
Section Two. Effects of the
penaltiesaccording to their respective nature
ART. 30: EFFECTS OF THE PENALTIES OF
PERPETUAL OR TEMPORARY ABSOLUTE
DISQUALIFICATION
NOTES:
The exclusion is a mere disqualification from
protection, and not for punishment the
withholding of a privilege, not a denial of a
right.
Perpetual absolute disqualification is
effective during the lifetime of the convict and
even after the service of the sentence.
Temporary absolute disqualification is
effective during the term of sentence and is
removed after the service of the same.
Exceptions: (1) deprivation of the public office
or employment; (2) loss of all rights to
retirement pay or other pension for any office
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in Art.30, par. 2 (deprivation of the right to
vote), hence, the offender may vote in that
exercise, subject to the provisions of
pertinent election laws at the time.
Effects of Perpetual and temporary absolute
disqualification:
1. Deprivation of any public office or
employment of offender
2. Deprivation of the right to vote in any election
or to be voted upon
3. Loss of rights to retirement pay or pension
All these effects last during the lifetime of the
convict and even after the service of the
sentence except as regards paragraphs 2 and 3
of the above in connection with Temporary
Absolute Disqualification.
ART. 31: EFFECT OF THE PENALTIES OF
PERPETUAL OR TEMPORARY SPECIAL
DISQUALIFICATION
ART. 32: EFFECT OF THE PENALTIES OF
PERPETUAL OR TEMPORARY SPECIAL
DISQUALIFICATION FOR THE EXERCISE OF
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE
NOTE: Temporary disqualification if imposed is an
accessory penalty. Its duration is that of the principal
penalty.
Effects of Perpetual and Temporary Special
Disqualification:
1. For public office, profession, or calling
a. Deprivation of the office,
employment, profession or calling
affected
b. Disqualification for holding similar
offices or employment during the
period of disqualification
2. For the exercise of the right of suffrage
a. Deprivation of the right to vote or to
be elected in an office
b. Cannot hold any public office during
the period of disqualification
ART. 33: EFFECTS OF THE PENALTIES OF
SUSPENSION FROM ANY PUBLIC OFFICE,
PROFESSION OR CALLING, OR THE RIGHT
OF SUFFRAGE
Effects:
1. Disqualification from holding such office or
the exercise of such profession or right of
suffrage during the term of the sentence
2. Cannot hold another office having similar
functions during the period of suspension
ART 34: CIVIL INTERDCTION
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Effects;Deprivation of the following rights: 2. if the facts and circumstances of the case
1. Parental rights show that the purpose of the President is to
2. Guardianship over the ward precisely restore the rights i.e., granting
3. Marital authority absolute pardon after election to a post
4. Right to manage property and to dispose of (mayor) but before the date fixed by law for
the same by acts inter vivos assuming office to enable him to assume the
position in deference to the popular will
Civil Interdiction is an accessory penalty to the
following principal penalties: Pardon by the offended party does not extinguish
1. If death penalty is commuted to life criminal liability; may include offended party waiving
imprisonment civil indemnity and it should be done before the
2. Reclusion perpetua institution of the criminal prosecution and extended to
3. Reclusion temporal both offenders.
*He can dispose of such property by will or donation
mortis causa PARDON BY PARDON BY
THE CHIEF OFFENDED
EXECUTIVE PARTY (ART.
ART. 35: EFFECTS OF BOND TO KEEP THE (ART. 36) 23)
PEACE Crime Any crime, Crimes against
covered unless chastity under
otherwise the RPC only
Bond to keep the peace is different from bail bond
provided by or
which is posted for the provisional release of a
subject to
person arrested for or accused of a crime. Bond to
conditions in
keep the peace or for good behavior is imposed as a
the Constitution
penalty in threats.
or the laws
Extinguish- Extinguishes Does not
ART. 36: PARDON; ITS EFFECT ment of criminal liability extinguish
criminal criminal liability
NOTES: liability although it may
Pardon by the President does not restore the constitute a bar
right to public office or suffrage except when to the
both are expressly restored in the pardon. prosecution of
Nor does it exempt one from civil liability or the offender
from payment of civil indemnity. Effect on Cannot affect Offended party
civil liability the civil liability can waive the
Limitations to Presidents power to pardon: ex delicto of the civil liability
o can be exercised only after final offender
judgment When Only after Only before the
o does not extend to cases of granted conviction by institution of the
impeachment final judgment criminal action
o does not extinguish civil liability To whom Any or all of the In adultery and
only criminal liability granted accused concubinage,
must include
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1. if the absolute pardon is granted after the conditional conditional subject to a
term of imprisonment has expired, it removes condition
all that is left of the consequences of
conviction. However, if the penalty is life
imprisonment and after the service of 30
years, a pardon is granted, the pardon does ART. 37: COST; WHAT ARE INCLUDED
not remove the accessory penalty of absolute
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2. indemnities, in the course of
proceedings
NOTE:
Costs (expenses of the litigation) are
chargeable to the accused in case of
conviction. In case of acquittal, the costs are
de oficio, each party bearing his own
expense.
No costs are allowed against the Republic of
the Philippines, until law provides the
contrary.
The payment of costs is fully discretionary on
the Court.
ART. 38: PECUNIARY LIABILITIES; ORDER OF
PAYMENT
Pecuniary liabilities of persons criminally liable,
in the following order:
1. The reparation of the damage caused
2. Indemnification of the consequential
damages
3. Fine
4. Costs of proceedings
NOTES:
It is applicable in case the properties of the
offender are not sufficient for the payment of
all his pecuniary liabilities. Hence, if the
offender has insufficient or no property, there
is no use for Art 38.
Order of payment is mandatory.
Ex. Juan inflicted serious physical injuries against
Pedro and took the latters watch and ring. He
incurred P500 worth of hospital bills and failed to
earn P300 worth of salary. Given that Juan only
has P1000 worth of property not exempt from
execution, it shall first be applied to the payment
of the watch and ring which cannot be returned,
as such is covered by reparation of the damage
caused, thus, no. 1 in the order of payment. The
500 and 300 are covered by indemnification of
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ART. 39: SUBSIDIARY PENALTY
NOTES:
When the penalty prescribed is
imprisonment, it is the penalty actually
imposed by the Court, not the penalty
provided for by the Code, which should be
considered in determining whether or not
judicial subsidiary penalty should be imposed.
There is no subsidiary penalty for non-
payment of reparation, indemnification and
costs in par 1, 2 and 4 of Art 38. It is only for
fines.
Art 39 applies only when the convict has no
property with which to meet the fine in par 3
of art 38. Thus, a convict who has non-
exempt property enough to meet the fine
cannot choose to serve the subsidiary
penalty instead of payment of the fine.
Subsidiary imprisonment is not an accessory
penalty. It is covered by Arts. 40-45 of this
Code. Accessory penalties are deemed
imposed even when not mentioned, while
subsidiary imprisonment must be expressly
imposed.
RULES AS TO SUBSIDIARY PENALTY
1. If the penalty imposed is prisin correccional
or arresto and fine subsidiary imprisonment
is not to exceed 1/3 of the term of the
sentence, and in no case to continue for
more than one year. Fraction or part of a day,
not counted.
2. When the penalty imposed is fine only
subsidiary imprisonment is:
not to exceed 6 months if the
culprit is prosecuted for grave
or less grave felony, and
not to exceed 15 days if
prosecuted for light felony.
3. When the penalty imposed is higher than
prisin correccional no subsidiary
imprisonment.
4. If the penalty imposed is not to be executed
by confinement, but of fixed duration
subsidiary penalty shall consist in the same
deprivations as those of the principal penalty,
under the same rules as nos. 1, 2 and 3
above.
5. In case the financial circumstances of the
convict should improve, he shall pay the fine,
notwithstanding the fact that the convict
suffered subsidiary personal liability therefor.
WHERE NO SUBSIDIARY PENALTY SHALL BE
IMPOSED:
1. The penalty imposed is higher than prisin
correccional or 6 years,
2. For non-payment of reparation or
indemnification,
3. For non-payment of costs, and
4. Where the penalty imposed is a fine and
another penalty without fixed duration, like
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censure.
Section Three. Penalties in which other
accessory penalties are inherent
ART. 40: DEATH; ITS ACCESSORY PENALTIES
ART. 41: RECLUSION PERPETUA AND
RECLUSION TEMPORAL; THEIR ACCESSORY
PENALTIES
ART. 42: PRISION MAYOR; ITS ACCESSORY
PENALTIES
ART. 43: PRISION CORRECCIONAL; ITS
ACCESSORY PENALTIES
ART. 44: ARRESTO; ITS ACCESSORY PENALTIES
Outline Of Accessory Penalties Inherent In
Principal Penalties
1. Death, if not executed because of
commutation or pardon
a. perpetual absolute disqualification
b. civil interdiction during 30 years (if
not expressly remitted in the pardon)
2. Reclusion Perpetua and Reclusion Temporal
a. civil interdiction for life or during the
sentence
b. perpetual absolute disqualification
(unless expressly remitted in the
pardon)
3. Prision Mayor
a. temporary absolute disqualification
b. perpetual special disqualification
from suffage (unless expressly
remitted in the pardon)
4. Prision Correccional
a. suspension from public office,
profession or calling
b. perpetual special disqualification
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(unless expressly remitted in the
pardon)
NOTES:
The accessory penalties in Art 40-44 must be
suffered by the offender, although pardoned
as to the principal penalties. To be relieved of
these penalties, they must be expressly
remitted in the pardon.
No accessory penalty for destierro
Persons who served out the penalty may not
have the right to exercise the right of
suffrage. For a prisoner who has been
sentenced to one year of imprisonment or
more for any crime, absolute pardon restores
to him his political rights. If the penalty is less
than one year, disqualification does not
attach except if the crime done was against
property.
The nature of the crime is immaterial when
the penalty imposed is one year
imprisonment or more.
The accessory penalties are understood to
be always imposed upon the offender by the
mere fact that the law fixes a certain penalty
for the crime.
The accessory penalties do not affect the
jurisdiction of the court in which the
information is filed because they do not
modify or alter the nature of the penalty
provided by law. What determines jurisdiction
in criminal cases is the principal penalty.
RECLUSION LIFE IMPRISONMENT
PERPETUA
Specific duration of no definite term or
20 years and 1 day accessory penalties
to 40 years and
accessory penalties
Imposable on Imposable on crimes
felonies punished by punishable by special
the RPC laws
ART. 45: CONFISCATION AND FORFEITURE
OF THE PROCEEDS OR INSTRUMENTS OF
THE CRIME
1. Every penalty imposed carries with it the
forfeiture of the proceeds of the crime and
the instruments or tools used in the
commission of the crime.
2. The proceeds and instruments/tools of the
crime are confiscated in favor of the
government.
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3. The property of 3 persons (not liable for the
offense) is not subject to confiscation and
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forfeiture.
4. Property not subject of lawful commerce
(whether it belongs to the accused or a 3rd
person) shall be destroyed.
NOTES:
There cannot be confiscation or forfeiture
unless theres a criminal case filed, tried and
accused is convicted.
Third person must be indicted to effect
confiscation of his property.
Instruments of the crime belonging to an
innocent 3rd person may be recovered.
Confiscation can be ordered only if the
property is submitted in evidence or placed at
the disposal of the court.
When the order of forfeiture has already
become final, the articles which were forfeited
can not be returned, even in case of an
acquittal.
There must be conviction by final judgment.
However, even if the accused is acquitted on
reasonable doubt, but the instruments or
proceeds are contraband, the judgment of
acquittal shall order their forfeiture for
appropriate disposition.
Confiscation & forfeiture are additional
penalties. When the penalty imposed did not
include the confiscation of the goods involved,
the subsequent confiscation & forfeiture of
said goods would be an additional penalty,
amounting to an increase of the penalty
already imposed, thereby placing the accused
in double jeopardy. In case the accused
appeals, confiscation and forfeiture not
ordered by the trial court may be imposed by
the appellate court
The government can not appeal the
modification of a sentence if the defendant did
not appeal. But if the defendant appeals, it
removes all bars to the review and correction
of the penalty imposed by the court below,
even if an increase thereof should be the
result
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1. The instruments belong to innocent third
parties
2. Such properties have not been placed under
the jurisdiction of the court
3. When it is legally or physically impossible.
Chapter Four
APPLICATION OF PENALTIES
Section One. Rules for the application of
penalties to the persons criminally liable and for
the graduation of the same.
ART. 46: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED UPON
PRINCIPALS IN GENERAL
GENERAL RULE: The penalty prescribed by law in
general terms shall be imposed:
1. upon the principals
2. for consummated felony
EXCEPTION: when the law fixes a penalty for
the frustrated or attempted felony. Whenever it is
believed that the penalty lower by one or two
degrees corresponding to said acts of execution
is not proportionate to the wrong done, the law
fixes a distinct penalty for the principal in the
frustrated or attempted felony.
The Graduation Of Penalties Refers To:
1. By degree
a. stages of execution (consummated,
frustrated, attempted)
b. degree of the criminal participation of
the offender (principal, accomplice,
accessory)
2. By period
a. (minimum, medium, maximum) -
refers to the proper period of the
penalty w/c should be imposed when
aggravating or mitigating
circumstances attend the
commission of the crime
ART. 47: IN WHAT CASES THE DEATH
PENALTY SHALL NOT BE IMPOSED
Death Penalty Not Imposed In The Following
Cases:
1. under age - when the offender is under 18
yrs of age at the time of commission.
Why? - Because minority is always
a mitigating circumstance
2. over age - when the person is more than 70
years old at time RTC sentenced him
3. no court majority - when upon appeal or
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automatic review of the case by the SC, Requisites:

the vote of eight members is not obtained for 1. that at least 2 offenses are
the imposition of death committed
2. that one or some of the offenses
must be necessary to commit the
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DEATH PENALTY:
other
social defense and exemplarity. Not considered cruel
3. that both or all the offenses must be
and unusual because it does not involve torture or
punished under the same statute
lingering death.
No Single Act In The Following Cases:
CRIMES PUNISHABLE BY DEATH UNDER THE 1. when 2 persons are killed one after the other,
DEATH PENALTY LAW (RA 7659) by different acts, although these 2 killings
1. Treason were the result of a single criminal impulse.
2. Qualified Piracy The different acts must be considered as
3. Qualified Bribery distinct crimes.
4. Parricide 2. when the acts are wholly different, not only in
5. Murder themselves, but also because they are
6. Infanticide directed against 2 different persons, as when
7. Kidnapping and Serious Illegal Detention one fires his gun twice in succession, killing
8. Robbery with Homicide, Rape, Intentional one and injuring the other.
Mutilation, or Arson
9. Rape with the use of a deadly weapon, or Light felonies produced by the same act should be
by two or more persons treated and punished as separate offenses, or may
- where the victim became insane be absorbed by the grave felony.
- with Homicide
10. Qualified Rape NOTES:
11. Destructive Arson When in obedience to an order, several
12. Plunder accused simultaneously shot many persons,
13. Violation of certain provisions of the w/o evidence how many each killed, there is
Dangerous Drugs Act only a single offense, there being a single
14. Carnapping criminal impulse.
For the attainment of a single purpose w/c
constitutes an offense, various acts are
ART.48: PENALTY FOR COMPLEX CRIMES executed, such acts must be considered only
as one offense. (Gregorio does not agree
COMPLEX CRIME although there actually are two with this.)
or more crimes, the law treats them as constituting When a complex crime is charged and one
only one- as there is only one criminal intent. Only offense is not proven, the accused can be
one information need be filed. convicted of the other.
There is no complex crime of arson w/
2 Kinds Of Complex Crimes: homicide.
1. compound crime single act constitutes 2 Art 48 is applicable to crimes through
or more grave or less grave felonies negligence.
Kidnapping the victim to murder him in a
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by the offender necessary means to commit murder. But
b. that the single act produces where the victim was taken from his home
i. 2 or more grave felonies but it was solely for the purpose of killing him
ii. one or more grave and one and not for detaining him illegally or for the
or more less grave felonies purpose of ransom, the crime is simple
iii. 2 or more less grave felonies murder.
Necessary means does not mean
2. complex crime proper when an offense is indispensable means. Indispensable
a necessary means for committing another would mean it is an element of the crime. The
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The means actually employed (another
crime) was merely to facilitate and insure the
consummation of the crime.
It is not a complex crime when trespass to
dwelling is a direct means to commit a grave
offense. Like rape, there is no complex crime
of trespass to dwelling with rape. Trespass
will be considered as aggravating (unlawful
entry or breaking part of a dwelling)
When the offender had in his possession the
funds w/c he misappropriated, the
falsification of a public or official document
involving said funds is a separate offense.
But when the offender had to falsify a public
or official document to obtain possession of
the funds w/c he misappropriated, the
falsification is a necessary means to commit
the malversation.
There is no complex crime of rebellion w/
murder, arson, robbery or other common
crimes. They are mere ingredients of the
crime of rebellion absorbed already.
(according to Ortega, complex)
When 2 crimes produced by a single act are
respectively within the exclusive jurisdiction
of 2 courts of different jurisdiction, the court
of higher jurisdiction shall try the complex
crime.
Art. 48 is intended to favor the culprit.
The penalty for complex crime is the penalty
for the most serious crime, the same to be
applied in its maximum period. If the different
crimes resulting from one single act are
punished w/ the same penalty, the penalty for
any one of them shall be imposed, the same
to be applied in the maximum period. The
same rule shall be observed when an offense
is a necessary means to commit the other.
A complex crime of the second form may be
committed by two persons.
But when one of the offenses, as a means to
commit the other, was committed by one of
the accused by reckless imprudence, the
accused who committed the crime by
reckless imprudence is liable for his acts
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When two felonies constituting a complex
crime are punishable by imprisonment and
fine, respectively, only the penalty of
imprisonment shall be imposed. Reason:
Fine is not included in the list of penalties in
the order of severity and it is the last in the
graduated scales in Art. 71.
When a single act constitutes two grave or
less grave or one grave and another less
grave, and the penalty for one is
imprisonment while that for the other is fine,
the severity of the penalty for the more
serious crime should not be judged by the
classification of each of the penalties
involved, but by the nature of the penalties.
In the order of severity of the penalties,
arresto mayor and arresto menor are
considered more severe than destierro and
arresto menor is higher in degree than
destierro.
There is NO COMPLEX CRIME in the following:
1. In case of continuing crimes
2. When one offense is committed to conceal
the other
3. When the other crime is an indispensable
part or an element of the other offenses as
defined
4. Where one of the offenses is penalized by a
special law
5. When the law provides one single penalty for
special complex crime:
a. Robbery with Homicide
b. Robbery with Rape
c. Rape with Homicide
d. Kidnapping with Serious Physical
Injuries
e. Kidnapping with Homicide
PLURALITY OF CRIMES consists in the
successive execution by the same individual of
different criminal acts upon any of which no
conviction has yet been declared.
Kinds Of Plurality Of Crimes:
1. Formal or Ideal only one criminal liability.
Formal or ideal crimes are further divided into
three groups, where a person committing
multiple crimes is punished with only one
penalty:
a. when the offender commits any of
the complex crimes defined in Art.
48
b. when the law specifically fixes a
single penalty for 2 or more
offenses committed: robbery w/
homicide, kidnapping w/
serious physical injuires
c. when the offender commits
continued crimes
2. Real Or Material there are different crimes
in law as well as in the conscience of the
offender. In such cases, the offender shall be
punished for each and every offense that he
committed.
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ART 49 ART 48 PLURALITY OF CRIMES RECIDIVISM

Lesser penalty to be Penalty for the more No conviction of the crimes There must be conviction
imposed in its maximum serious crime shall be committed by final judgment of the first
period imposed in its maximum prior offense
period
CONTINUED CRIME refers to a single crime
consisting of a series of acts but all arising from one
criminal resolution. Although there is a series of acts,
there is only one crime committed, so only one RULES:
penalty shall be imposed. 1. If the penalty for the felony committed be
higher than the penalty for the offense which
Ex of continued crimes: the accused intended to commit, the lower
a. A collector of a commercial firm penalty shall be imposed in its maximum
misappropriates for his personal use several period.
amounts collected by him from different 2. If the penalty for the felony committed be
persons. There is only one crime because lower than the penalty for the offense which
the different and successive appropriations the accused intended to commit, the lower
are but the different moments during w/c one penalty shall be imposed in its maximum
criminal resolution arises. period.
b. Juan steals 2 books belonging to 2 different 3. If the act committed also constitutes an
persons. He commits only one crime attempt or frustration of another crime, and
because there is unity of thought in the the law prescribes a higher penalty for either
criminal purpose of the offender. of the latter, the penalty for the attempted or
frustrated crime shall be imposed in its
NOTE: A continued crime is not a complex crime, as maximum period.
the offender does not perform a single act but a
series of acts. Therefore: NOTES:
a. penalty not to be imposed in the maximum Art. 49 has reference to the provision in the
st
b. no actual provision punishing continued 1 par of Art .4 which provides that criminal
crime It is a principle applied in connection liability shall be incurred by any person
with 2 or more crimes committed with a committing a felony although the wrongful act
single intention. done be different from that which he
intended.
NOTE: A continued (continuous or continuing) crime Art. 49 is applicable only in cases when there
is different from a transitory crime. Transitory crime is a mistake in identity of the victim of the
is moving crime. crime (error in personae) and the penalty for
the crime committed is different from that for
the crime intended to be committed.
REAL/MATERIAL CONTINUED CRIME Art. 49 also has no application where a more
PLURALITY serious consequence not intended by the
offender befalls the same person.
There is a series of acts Same
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criminal impulse arise from one criminal and may well be covered by Art. 48, in view
resolution. of the fact that the same act also constitutes
an attempt or a frustration of another crime.

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Art. 50: Penalty to be imposed upon principals Distinctions between Degree and Period
of a frustrated crime Degree Period
Art. 51: Penalty to be imposed upon principals
of attempted crimes Refers to the penalty Refers to the duration
Art. 52: Penalty to be imposed upon imposable for a felony of the penalty
accomplices in consummated crime committed considering consisting of the
Art. 53: Penalty to be imposed upon the stages of execution maximum, medium,
accessories to the commission of a and the degree of and minimum, after
consummated felony participation of the considering the
Art. 54: Penalty to imposed upon accomplices offender presence or absence
in a frustrated crime of aggravating
Art. 55: Penalty to be imposed upon circumstances
accessories of a frustrated crime
Art. 56: Penalty to be imposed upon
accomplices in an attempted crime May refer to both Refers only to
Art. 57: Penalty to be imposed upon divisible and indivisible divisible penalties
accessories of an attempted crime penalties

APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 50 TO 57 NOTE: The rules provided in Arts. 53, 55 and 57 do

not apply if the felony is light because accessories
Participation Consummated Frustrated Attempted are not liable for the same.
Principal Penalty 1 less 2 less
ART. 58: ADDITIONAL PENALTY TO BE
imposed by law
IMPOSED UPON CERTAIN ACCESSORIES
Accomplice 1 less 2 less 3 less

Accessory 2 less 3 less
NOTES:
Art. 50-57 are not applicable when the law
specifically prescribes the penalty for the
frustrated and attempted felony or that to be
imposed upon the accomplices and
accessories. (examples: qualified seduction,
flight to enemy country, kidnapping)
Degree one whole penalty, one entire
penalty or one unit of the penalties
enumerated in the graduated scales provided
for in Art. 71
Period one of 3 equal portions,
min/med/max of a divisible penalty. A period
of a divisible penalty when prescribed by the
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4 less NOTE: Art. 58 is limited only to grave and less grave
felonies since it is not possible to have accessories
liable for light felonies. It is further limited to those
whose participation in the crime is characterized by
the misuse of public office or authority.
Additional Penalties for Public Officers who are
accessories:
1. Absolute Perpetual Disqualification, if the
principal offender is guilty of a grave felony
2. Absolute temporary disqualification, if the
principal offender is guilty of less grave felony
ART. 59: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED IN CASE
OF FAILURE TO COMMIT THE CRIME
BECAUSE THE MEANS EMPLOYED OR THE
AIMS SOUGHT ARE IMPOSSIBLE
NOTES:
Basis for the imposition of proper penalty in
impossible crimes: social danger and degree
of criminality shown by the offender
The penalty for impossible crime is arresto
mayor (imprisonment of 1 month and 1 day
to 6 months) or fine ranging from 200-500
pesos.
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felonies. Divisible Penalties: (maximum, medium,

However, considering Article 4, this article is minimum)
actually limited to offenses against persons 1. Reclusion Temporal
or property. 2. Prision Correcional
3. Arresto Mayor
4. Destierro
ART. 60: EXCEPTION TO THE RULES 5. Arresto Menor
ESTABLISHED IN ARTICLES 50 TO 57 6. Public Censure
7. Fine
Two cases where the accomplice is punished RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN LOWERING THE
with the same penalty imposed upon the PENALTY BY ONE OR TWO DEGREES
principal:
1. ascendants, guardians, curators, teachers Rule No. 1: when the penalty is single and indivisible
and any person who, by abuse of authority or (ex. RP), the penalty next lower shall be reclusion
confidential relationship, shall cooperate as temporal.
accomplices in the crimes of rape, acts of
lasciviousness, seduction, corruption of Rule No. 2:
minors, white slave trade or abduction. 1. when the penalty is composed of two
2. one who furnished the place for the indivisible penalties; or
perpetration of the crime of slight illegal 2. when the penalty is composed of one or
detention more divisible penalties to be imposed to
their full extent
NOTE: Accessory punished as principal: Art 142 the penalty next lower in degree shall be that
punishes an accessory for knowingly concealing immediately following the lesser of the penalties
certain evil practices prescribed

Rule No. 3: when the penalty is composed of 1 or 2

Cases where penalty imposed on accessories are
one degree lower instead of two degrees:
1. knowingly using counterfeited seal or forged
signature or stamp of the President of the
Republic
2. illegal possession and use of false treasury
or bank note
3. use of a falsified document
4. use of a falsified dispatch
indivisible penalties and the maximum period of a
divisible penalty
Ex. penalty for murder is reclusion temporal
to death. The point of reference will be on the
proper divisible penalty which is RT.
rd
Under the 3 rule, the penalty next lower to RT is
composed of the medium and minimum periods
of RT and the max of prision mayor.

Rules 4 and 5:
ART. 61: RULES FOR GRADUATING 1. if the penalty prescribed in the Code consists
PENALTIES of three periods corresponding to different
divisible penalties, the penalty next lower is
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determining the minimum of the Indeterminate scale
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GRADUATED SCALE IN ART. 71 NOTE: Mitigating and Aggravating circumstances are
first disregarded in the application of the rules for
Indivisible Penalties: graduating penalties. It is only after the penalty next
1. Death lower in degree is already determined that the
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ART. 62: EFFECT OF THE ATTENDANCE OF
MITIGATING OR AGGRAVATING
CIRCUMSTANCES AND OF HABITUAL
DELINQUENCY
Par. 1: Aggravating circumstances are not to be
taken into account when:
1. they themselves constitute a crime. Ex. by
means of fire arson
2. they are included by law in the definition of a
crime
Par. 2: Same rules apply when the aggravating
circumstance is inherent in the crime
Par. 3: Aggravating or mitigating circumstances
arising from any of the following affect only those to
whom such circumstances are attendant:
1. from the moral attributes of the offender
2. from his private relations w/ the offended
party
3. from any other personal cause
Par. 4: the circumstances which consist of the
following shall serve to aggravate and mitigate the
liability only of those who had knowledge of them at
the time of the commission of the offense
1. material execution of the act
2. means employed to accomplish the crime
Par. 5: Habitual Delinquent is a person who within
the period of 10 years from the date of his (last)
release or last conviction of the crimes of:
1. Falsification
2. Robbery
3. Estafa
4. Theft
5. Serious or less serious physical injuries
is found guilty of any of the said crimes a third time or
oftener.
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Effects of the circumstances:
o Aggravating circumstances (generic
and specific) have the effect of
increasing the penalty, without
however exceeding the
maximum period provided by
law.
o Mitigating circumstances have the
effect of diminishing the
penalty.
o Habitual delinquency has the
effect, not only of increasing
the penalty because of recidivism
which is generally implied in
habitual delinquency, but also of
imposing an additional penalty.
Ten year period to be computed from the
time of last release or conviction
Subsequent crime must be committed after
conviction of the former crime. Cases still
pending are not to be taken into
consideration.
HABITUAL RECIDIVISM
DELINQUENCY
Crimes to be committed Same title
are specified
W/ in 10 years No time fixed by law
Must be found guilty 3rd Second conviction
time or oftener
Additional penalty is Is not offset by MC,
imposed increases penalty to
maximum
REQUISITES Of Habitual Delinquency:
1. that the offender had been convicted of any
of the crimes of serious or less serious
physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa or
falsification
2. that after conviction or after serving his
sentence, he again committed, and, within 10
years from his last release of first conviction,
he was again convicted of any of the said
crimes for the second time
3. that after his conviction of, or after serving
sentence for the second offense, he again
committed, and, within 10 years from his last
release or last conviction, he was again
convicted of any of said offenses, the third
time or oftener
Rulings on Habitual Delinquency:
1. The law on habitual delinquency does not
contemplate the exclusion from the
computation of prior conviction those falling
outside the 10-year period immediately
preceding the crime for which the defendant
is being tried.
2. Ten-year period is counted not from the date
of commission of the subsequent offense but
from the date of conviction thereof in relation
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to the date of his last release or last
conviction.
3. When an offender has committed several
crimes mentioned in the definition of habitual
delinquent, without being first convicted of
any of them before committing the others, he
is not a habitual delinquent.
4. Convictions on the same day or at about the
same time are considered as one only (days,
weeks..).
5. Crimes committed on the same date,
although convictions on different dates are
considered as one.
6. Previous convictions are considered every
time a new offense is committed.
7. Commissions of those crimes need not be
consummated.
8. Habitual delinquency applies to accomplice
and accessories.
9. A crime committed during the minority of the
offender is not counted because proceedings
as regards that crime are suspended.
10. Imposition of additional penalty is mandatory
and constitutional.
11. Modifying circumstances are applicable to
additional penalty.
12. Habitual delinquency is not a crime. It is
simply a fact or circumstance which if present
gives rise to the imposition of additional
penalty.
13. Penalty for habitual delinquency is a real
penalty that determines jurisdiction.
14. A habitual delinquent is necessarily a
recidivist.
15. In imposing the additional penalty, recidivism
is not aggravating. The additional penalty
must be imposed in its minimum.
16. An offender can be a habitual delinquent
without being a recidivist, when no two of the
crimes committed are embraced in the same
title of the Code. (Reyes)
NOTES:
In no case shall the total penalties imposed
upon the offender exceed 30 years.
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habitual delinquents are constitutional, it is
simply a punishment on future crimes on
account of the criminal propensities of the
accused.
The imposition of such additional penalties
are mandatory.
Habitual delinquency applies at any stage of
the execution because subjectively, the
offender reveals the same degree of
depravity or perversity as the one who
commits a consummated crime.
Habitual delinquency applies to all
participants because it reveals persistence in
them of the inclination to wrongdoing and of
the perversity of character that led them to
commit the previous crime.
ART. 63: RULES FOR THE APPLICATION OF
INDIVISIBLE PENALTIES
Rules for the application of indivisible penalties:
1. Penalty is single and indivisible applied
regardless of the presence of aggravating
and mitigating circumstances
2. Penalty composed of two indivisible penalties
a. One aggravating circumstance
present higher penalty
b. One mitigating circumstance present
lower penalty
c. Some mitigating circumstances
present and no aggravating lower
penalty
d. Mitigating and Aggravating
Circumstances are present basis in
number and importance
NOTES:
Art 63 applies only when the penalty
prescribed by the Code is either one
indivisible penalty or 2 indivisible penalties.
Par.4: the moral value rather than the
numerical weight shall be taken into account.
GENERAL RULE: When the penalty is
composed of 2 indivisible penalties, the penalty
cannot be lowered by one degree, no matter how
many mitigating circumstances are present
EXCEPTION: In cases of privileged
mitigating circumstances
ART. 64: RULES FOR THE APPLICATION OF
PENALTIES WHICH CONTAIN THREE
PERIODS
Rules For The Application Of Divisible Penalties:
1. No aggravating and no mitigating
circumstances medium period
2. One mitigating circumstance minimum
period
3. One aggravating circumstance maximum
period
4. Mitigating and aggravating circumstance
offset each other and according to relative
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weight
5. 2 or more mitigating without any aggravating
circumstance one degree lower
NOTES:
Art. 64 applies when the penalty has 3
periods because they are divisible. If the
penalty is composed of 3 different penalties,
each forms a period according to Art. 77
Par. 4: the mitigating circumstances must be
ordinary, not privileged. The aggravating
circumstances must be generic or specific,
not qualifying or inherent.
the court has discretion to impose the penalty
within the limits fixed by law
Art. 64 not applicable when the penalty is
indivisible or prescribed by special law or a
fine
Cases where the attending aggravating or
mitigating circumstances are not considered
in the imposition of penalties:
Penalty that is single and indivisible
Felonies through negligence
Where the penalty is only a fine
imposed by an ordinance (subject to
discretion of court see Article 66)
Penalty is prescribed by a special
law
ART. 65: RULE IN CASES IN WHICH THE
PENALTY IS NOT COMPOSED OF THREE
PERIODS
Computations:
Example: Prision Mayor (6 years, 1 day to 12
years)
1. subtract the minimum (disregard 1 day) from
the maximum
12 years 6 years = 6 years
2. Divide the difference by 3.
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minimum to get the maximum of the
minimum period.
6 years (minimum of the minimum)
+ 2 years (difference)
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8 years (maximum of the minimum).
Therefore, minimum period of prision mayor
= 6 years 1 day to 8 years
4. Use the maximum of the minimum period as
the minimum of the medium period and add 1
day to distinguish from the minimum period.
Then add 2 years to the minimum of the
medium (disregarding the 1 day) to get the
maximum of the medium period.
8 years (minimum of the medium)
+ 2 years (difference)
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10 years (maximum of the medium)
Therefore, medium period of prision mayor =
8 years 1 day to 10 years
5. use the maximum of the medium period as
the minimum of the maximum pd, and add 1
day to distinguish it from the maximum of the
medium period. Then add 2 years to the
minimum of the maximum pd (disregarding
the 1 day) to get the maximum of the
maximum period)
10 years (maximum of the medium)
+ 2 years (difference)
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12 years (maximum of the maximum)
Therefore, maximum period of prision mayor
= 10 years 1 day to 12 years
*Computation above is applicable to all others except
to arresto mayor.
Example: Prision Mayor minimum (6 years 1 day
to 8 years) only
1. Subtract minimum from the maximum.
8 years 6 years = 2 years
2. Divide the difference by 3.
2 years / 3 = 8 months
3. Use the minimum of the given example as
the minimum period. Then to get to get the
period. Then add maximum of the minimum, add the 8 months.
6 years + 8 months = 6 years and 8
months
Therefore, minimum of prision mayor
minimum = 6 years 1 day to 6 years 8
months
4. Use the maximum of the minimum as the
minimum of the medium period. Add 1 day to
distinguish it from the maximum of the
minimum. Add the 8 months and this
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becomes the maximum of the medium
6 years 8 months + 8 months = 7
years 4 months
Therefore, the medium period of prision
mayor minimum = 6 years, 8 months 1 day to
7 years, 4 months
5. Use the maximum of the medium as the
minimum period of the maximum period and
add 1 day to distinguish. Add the 8 months to
get the maximum of this maximum
7 years 4, months + 8 months = 8
years
Therefore, maximum of prision mayor = 7
years, 4 months, 1 day to 8 years
ART. 66: IMPOSITION OF FINES
1. The
court can fix any amount of the fine within the
limits established by law.
2. Court must consider the following in imposing
the fines:
a. mitigating and aggravating
circumstances
b. more particularly, the wealth and
means of the culprit
3. The following may also be considered by the
court:
a. the gravity of the crime committed
b. the heinousness of its perpetration
c. the magnitude of its effects on the
offenders victims.
NOTE: When the minimum of the fine is not fixed, the
court shall have the discretion, provided it does not
exceed the amount authorized by law.
ART. 67: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED WHEN
NOT ALL THE REQUISITES OF EXEMPTION
OF THE FOURTH CIRCUMSTANCE OF
ARTICLE 12 ARE PRESENT
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1. act causing the injury must be lawful
2. act performed w/ due care
3. injury was caused by mere accident
4. no fault or intention to cause injury
NOTE: If these conditions are not all present, then
the following penalties shall be imposed:
1. grave felony arresto mayor max to prision
correcional minimum
2. less grave felony arresto mayor min to
arresto mayor medium
ART. 68: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED UPON A
PERSON UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE
NOTE: Art. 68 applies to such minor if his application
for suspension of sentence is disapproved or if while
in the reformatory institution he becomes incorrigible,
in which case he shall be returned to the court for the
imposition of the proper penalty.
Art. 68 provides for 2 privileged mitigating
circumstances:
1. If the act is attended by two or more
mitigating circumstances and no aggravating
circumstance, the penalty being divisible, a
minor over 15 but under 18 may still get a
penalty two degrees lower.
2. under 15 but over 9 and has acted w/
discretion: 2 degrees lower
3. under 18 but over 15: 1 degree lower
ART. 69: PENALTY TO BE IMPOSED WHEN
THE CRIME COMMITTED IS NOT WHOLLY
EXCUSABLE
NOTE: Penalty to be imposed when the crime
committed is not wholly excusable:1 or 2 degrees
lower if the majority of the conditions for justification
or exemption in the cases provided in Arts. 11 and 12
are present.
ART. 70: SUCCESSIVE SERVICE OF
SENTENCE
NOTES:
The Three-Fold Rule
1. Maximum duration of the convicts sentence:
3 times the most severe penalty imposed
2. Maximum duration: shall not exceed 40 yrs
3. Subsidiary imprisonment: This shall be
excluded in computing for the maximum
duration.
* The three-fold rule shall apply only when the convict
is to serve 4 or more sentences successively.
Different Systems Of Penalty (Relative To The
Execution Of Two Or More Penalties Imposed The
Same Accused)
1. Material accumulation system - No
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limitation whatsoever, and accordingly, all the
penalties for all the violations were imposed
even if they reached beyond the natural span
of human life.
2. Juridical accumulation system - Limited to
not more than three-fold the length of time
corresponding to the most severe and in no
case to exceed 40 years. This is followed in
our jurisdiction.
3. Absorption system - The lesser penalties
are absorbed by the graver penalties.
ART. 71: GRADUATED SCALES
ART. 72: PREFERENCE IN THE PAYMENT OF THE
CIVIL LIABILITIES
NOTE: The penalties shall be satisfied according to
the chronological order of the dates of the final
judgment. (Art. 70)
Section Three. Provisions common in the last
two preceding sections
ART. 73: PRESUMPTION IN REGARD TO THE
IMPOSITION OF ACCESSORY PENALTIES
NOTE: Accessory penalties are deemed imposed
with the principal penalty. However, the subsidiary
imprisonment must be expressly stated in the
decision, as it is not considered an accessory
penalty.
ART. 74: PENALTY HIGHER THAN RECLUSION
PERPETUA IN CERTAIN CASES
NOTE: If the decision or law says higher than
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temporal, then the penalty imposed is reclusion
perpetua or reclusion temporal as the case may be,
and not death. Death must be designated by name.
However, for the other penalties, this does not apply.
Ex: the penalty for crime X is 2 degrees lower than
RP. The penalty imposed is prision mayor.
ART. 75: INCREASING OR REDUCING THE
PENALTY OF FINE BY ONE OR MORE
DEGREES
To get the lower degree:
1. Max: reduce by one-fourth
2. Min: the same
ART. 76: LEGAL PERIOD OF DURATION OF
DIVISIBLE PENALTIES
ART. 77: WHEN THE PENALTY IS A COMPLEX
ONE COMPOSED OF THREE DISTINCT
PENALTIES
NOTE: If there are 3 distinct penalties; there shall be
a minimum, a medium and a maximum.
Ex: Reclusion temporal max to death
Chapter Five
EXECUTION AND SERVICE OF PENALTIES
Section One. General Provisions
ART. 78: WHEN AND HOW A PENALTY IS TO
BE EXECUTED
NOTES:
Only a penalty by final judgment can be
executed. Judgment is final if the accused
has not appealed within 15 days or he has
expressly waived in writing that he will not
appeal.
There could be no subsidiary liability if it was
not expressly ordered in the judgment.
ART. 79: SUSPENSION OF THE EXECUTION
AND SERVICE OF THE PENALTIES IN CASE
OF INSANITY
Cases of insanity:
1. After final sentence, suspend the sentence
regarding the personal penalties.
2. If he recovers, the sentence is executed
unless it has prescribed.
3. The payment of civil of pecuniary liabilities
shall not be suspended.
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INDETERMINATE SENTENCE LAW
Act No. 4103 as amended by Act No. 4225
- It applies to both violations of Revised Penal Code
and special laws, and is based on the penalty
actually imposed.
Indeterminate sentence is mandatory where
imprisonment would exceed one year.
IF THE PENALTY IS IMPOSED BY THE RPC:
1. The Maximum Term is that which could be
properly imposed under the RPC, considering the
aggravating and mitigating circumstances.
2. The MinimumTerm is within the range of the
penalty one degree lower than that prescribed by
the RPC, without considering the circumstances.
BUT when there is a privileged mitigating
circumstance, so that the penalty has to be
lowered by one degree, the STARTING POINT
for determining the minimum term of the
indeterminate penalty is the penalty next lower
than that prescribed by the Code for the offense.
IF THE PENALTY IS IMPOSED BY SPECIAL
PENAL LAW
1. The Maximum Term must not exceed the
maximum term fixed by said law.
2. The Minimum Term must not be less than
the minimum term prescribed by the same.
For SPECIAL LAWS, it is anything within the
inclusive range of the prescribed penalty. Courts
are given discretion in the imposition of the
indeterminate penalty. The aggravating and
mitigating circumstances are not considered
unless the special law adopts the same
terminology for penalties as those used in the
RPC (such as reclusin perpetua and the like).
WHEN BENEFIT OF THE ISL IS NOT
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to the following persons:
1. sentenced to death penalty or life
imprisonment
2. treason, or conspiracy or proposal to commit
treason
3. misprision of treason, rebellion, sedition or
espionage
4. piracy
5. habitual delinquents
6. escaped from confinement, or evaded
sentence
7. granted with conditional pardon by the
President, but violated the terms thereof
8. maximum term of imprisonment does not
exceed 1 year
9. sentenced to the penalty of destierro or
suspension only
RELEASE OF THE PRISONER ON PAROLE
The Board of Pardons and Parole may authorize the
release of a prisoner on parole, after he shall have
served the minimum penalty imposed on him,
provided that:
1. Such prisoner is fitted by his training for
release,
2. There is reasonable probability that he will live
and remain at liberty without violating the law,
3. Such release will not be incompatible with the
welfare of society.
ENTITLEMENT TO FINAL RELEASE AND
DISCHARGE
If during the period of surveillance such paroled
prisoner shall: (a) show himself to be a law abiding
citizen and, (b) shall not violate any law, the Board
may issue a final certification in his favor, for his final
release and discharge.
SANCTION FOR VIOLATION OF CONDITIONS OF
THE PAROLE
When the paroled prisoner shall violate any of the
conditions of his parole: (a) the Board may issue an
order for his arrest, and thereafter, (b) the prisoner
shall serve the remaining unexpired portion of the
maximum sentence for which he was originally
committed to prison.
REASONS FOR FIXING THE MAXIMUM AND
MINIMUM TERMS IN THE INDETERMINATE
SENTENCE
The minimum and maximum terms in the IS must be
fixed, because they are the basis for the following:
1. Whenever a prisoner has: (a) served the
MINIMUM penalty imposed on him, and (b) is
fit for release of the prisoner on parole, upon
terms and conditions prescribed by the
Board.
2. But when the paroled prisoner violates any of
the conditions of his parole during the period
of surveillance, he may be rearrested to
serve the remaining unexpired portion of the
MAXIMUM sentence.
3. Even if a prisoner has already served the
MINIMUM, but he is not fitted for release on
the parole, he shall continue to serve until the
end of the MAXIMUM term.
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ART. 80: SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE OF
MINOR DELINQUENTS (AS REPEALED BY PD
603: CHILD AND YOUTH WELFARE CODE)
1. Youthful offender over 9 but under 18 at
time of the commission of the offense
2. A child nine years of age or under at the time
of the commission of the offense shall be
exempt from criminal liability and shall be
committed to the care of his or her father or
mother, or nearest relative or family friend in
the discretion of the court and subject to its
supervision.
3. The same shall be done for a child over nine
years and under fifteen years of age at the
time of the commission of the offense, unless
he acted with discernment, in which case he
shall be proceeded against in accordance
with Article 192.
4. A youthful offender held for examination or
trial who cannot furnish bail will be committed
to the DSWD/local rehabilitation center or
detention home.
5. If the court finds that the youthful offender
committed the crime charged against him, it
shall determine the imposable penalty and
the civil liability chargeable against him, but it
may not pronounce judgment of conviction.
Instead, the court shall suspend all further
proceedings if, upon application of the
youthful offender, it finds that the best
interest of the public and that of the offender
will be served thereby.
EXCEPTIONS to suspension of sentence
a. those who previously enjoyed a
suspension of sentence
b. those convicted of death or life
imprisonment
c. those convicted for an offense by the
military tribunals
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incorrigible, or (2) has willfully failed to
comply with the conditions of his
rehabilitation programs; or (3) when his
continued stay in the training institution would
be inadvisable.
7. When the youthful offender has reached the
age of twenty one while in commitment, the
court shall determine whether-
a. To dismiss the case, if the youthful
offender has behaved properly and
has shown his capability to be a
useful member of the community; or
b. To pronounce the judgment of
conviction, if the conditions
mentioned are not met.
In the latter case, the convicted offender may
apply for probation. In any case, the youthful
offender shall be credited in the service of his
sentence with the full time spent in actual
commitment and detention.
8. The final release of a youthful offender,
based on good conduct as provided in Art.
196 shall not obliterate his civil liability for
damages.
9. A minor who is ALREADY AN ADULT at the
time of his conviction is not entitled to a
suspension of sentence.
10. The records of the proceeding shall be
privileged and shall not be disclosed.
11. The civil liability of the youthful offender may
be voluntarily assumed by a relative or a
friend.
12. The parent or guardian of the child is liable
when he aids, abets or connives for the
commission of the crime or does an act
producing, promoting or contributing to the
childs being a juvenile delinquent.
13. penalties for the parent or guardian: Fine not
exceeding P500 and/or imprisonment not
exceeding 2 years
PROBATION LAW OF 1976
(PD 968, AS AMENDED)
PROBATION - a disposition under which a defendant
after conviction and sentence is released subject to
conditions imposed by the court and to the
supervision of a probation officer
RULES ON GRANT OF PROBATION
1. After having convicted and sentenced a
defendant, the trial court may suspend the
execution of the sentence, and place the
defendant on probation, upon application by
the defendant within the period for perfecting
an appeal.
2. Probation may be granted whether the
sentence imposed a term of imprisonment or
fine only.
3. No application for probation shall be
entertained or granted if the defendant has
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perfected an appeal.
4. Filing of application for probation operates as
a waiver of the right to appeal.
5. The order granting or denying probation shall
not be appealable.
6. Accessory penalties are deemed suspended
once probation is granted.
7. The convict is not immediately placed on
probation. There shall be a prior investigation
by the probation officer and a determination
by the court.
8. CRITERIA FOR grant of probation:
a. All information relative to the
character, antecedents,
environment, mental, and physical
condition of the offender
b. Available institutional and community
resources.
9. Probation is to be denied upon finding of the
court that:
a. The offender is in need of
correctional treatment that can be
provided effectively by
commitment to an institution.
b. There is undue risk of committing
another crime.
c. Probation will depreciate
seriousness of the offense
committed.
10. At any time during probation, the court may
issue a warrant for the arrest of a probationer
for any serious violation of the conditions of
probation. If violation is established, the court
may:
a. revoke his probation, and thus make
him serve the sentence originally
imposed, or
b. continue his probation and modify its
conditions
The court order shall not be subject to
appeal.
11. Probation is not coterminous with its
period. There must be an order issued by
the court discharging the probationer. Upon
finding that he has fulfilled the terms and
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order the final discharge of the probationer.
This shall have the following effects:
a. case is deemed terminated
b. all civil rights lost or suspended are
restored
c. offenders liability for any fine
imposed is discharged
WHO ARE DISQUALIFIED FROM THE BENEFITS
OF PROBATION:
1. Sentenced to serve a maximum term of
imprisonment of more the 6 years
2. Convicted of subversion or any crime against
the national security or the public order
3. Previously convicted by final judgment of an
offense punished by imprisonment of
not less than 1 month and 1 day and/or a
fine not less than P200
4. Already placed on probation once
There are two kinds of conditions imposed upon
the offender under probation:
1. Mandatory or general once violated, the
probation is cancelled
a. The offender under probation must
present himself to the probation
officer designated to undertake his
supervision, at such place as may
be specified in the order,
within 72 hours from receipt of order.
his b. He should report to the probation
officer at least once a month.
2. Discretionary or special additional
conditions which the court may
the additionally impose for the probationers
correction and rehabilitation outside
prison. The enumeration is not
exclusive, as long as the probationers
Constitutional rights are not jeopardized.
Duration of Probation Period:
1. If the term of imprisonment is not more than
one year, probation shall not exceed 2
years.
2. if the term of imprisonment is more than one
year, period shall not exceed 6 years.
3. When the penalty is a fine only and the
offender is made to serve subsidiary
imprisonment, probation shall be twice the
total number of days of subsidiary
imprisonment.
ART. 81: WHEN AND HOW THE DEATH
PENALTY IS TO BE EXECUTED
ART. 82: NOTIFICATION AND EXECUTION
OF THE SENTENCE AND ASSISTANCE TO
THE CULPRIT
Section Two. Execution of principal penalties
NOTE: Designate a working day, which shall not be
communicated to the offender before the sunrise of
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said day. The execution shall not take place until after
the expiration of at least 8 hours following such
notification.
ART. 83: SUSPENSION OF THE EXECUTION
OF THE DEATH SENTENCE
surveillance of an officer of the law whenever
the court so provides in the decision due to
the health of the offender. But the reason is
not satisfactory just because the offender is a
respectable member of the community.

Death sentence commuted to RP: Title Four

1. woman, while pregnant EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
2. woman, within 1 year, after delivery
3. person over 70 years of age
4. convict who becomes insane after final
sentence of death has been pronounced

ART. 84: PLACE OF EXECUTION AND PERSONS Chapter One

WHO MAY WITNESS THE SAME TOTAL EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL
LIABILITY
ART. 85: PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO THE
CORPSE OF THE PERSON EXECUTED AND ITS
BURIAL

ART. 86: RECLUSION PERPETUA, RECLUSION ART. 89: HOW CRIMINAL LIABILITY IS TOTALLY
TEMPORAL, PRISION MAYOR, PRISION EXTINGUISHED
CORRECCIONAL AND ARRESTO MAYOR
PAR. 1. BY DEATH
ART. 87: DESTIERRO
NOTES:
Extinguishment of criminal liability is a
ground for motion to quash.
Destierro Shall Be Imposed In The Following Criminal liability whether before or after final
Cases: judgment is extinguished upon death
1. death or serious physical injuries is caused because it is a personal penalty.
or are inflicted under exceptional Pecuniary penalty is extinguished only when
circumstance death occurs before final judgment.
2. person fails to give bond for good behavior The death of the offended party however
3. concubines penalty for the crime of does not extinguish criminal liability of the
concubinage accused because it is a crime against the
4. lowering the penalty by degrees state.

Execution of Destierro:
1. Convict shall not be permitted to enter the PAR. 2. BY SERVICE OF SENTENCE
place designated in the sentence nor within
the radius specified, which shall not be more NOTES:
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place designated. payment.
2. If the convict enters the prohibited area, he Service does not extinguish civil liability.
commits evasion of sentence.
PAR. 3. BY AMNESTY
ART. 88: ARRESTO MENOR
Amnesty is an act of the sovereign power granting
NOTE: oblivion or general pardon. It wipes all traces and
Served where: vestiges of the crime but does not extinguish civil
1. In the municipal jail liability.
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PAR. 4. BY ABSOLUTE PARDON deed 6 months

Pardon an act of grace proceeding from the power
entrusted with the execution of laws, which exempts
the individual from the punishment the law inflicts for
the crime.
4. Light offenses 2 months
When the penalty is a compound one, the highest
penalty shall be made the basis of the application of
above rules.

PAR. 6. BY PRESCRIPTION OF PENALTY

AMNESTY
Extended to classes of
persons who may be guilty of
political offenses
Exercised even before trial or
investigation
Looks backward and
abolishes the offense itself
Does not extinguish civil
liability
A public act that needs the
declaration of the President
with the concurrence of
Congress
Courts should take judicial
notice
PAR. 5. BY PRESCRIPTION OF CRIME
PARDON NOTE: means the loss/forfeiture of the right of
government to execute the final sentence after the
Exercised individually lapse of a certain time.
by the President
Conditions:
1. There must be final judgment.
Exercised when one is 2. The period must have elapsed.
convicted
PRESCRIPTIVE PERIODS OF PENALTIES:
1. Death and reclusin perpetua 20 years
Looks forward and 2. Other afflictive penalties 15 years
3. Correctional penalties 10 years, except for
relieves the offender of
the penalty of arresto mayor which
the consequences
prescribes in 5 years
4. Light penalties 1 year
Same
A private act of the PAR. 6. BY MARRIAGE OF THE OFFENDED
President WOMAN (ART. 344)
NOTE:
Crimes covered:
1. rape
2. seduction
Must be pleaded and 3. abduction
proved 4. acts of lasciviousness
The marriage must be contracted in good faith.

Prescription of a crime is the loss/forfeiture of the ART. 90: PRESCRIPTION OF CRIME

right of the state to prosecute the offender after the
lapse of a certain time.
NOTES:
NOTE: When the crime prescribes, the state loses In computing for the period, the first day is
the right to prosecute excluded and the last day included. Period is
subject to leap years.
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1. Crimes punishable by: falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday, the
a. Death, reclusin perpetua or information can no longer be filed the
reclusin temporal 20 years following day.
b. afflictive penalties 15 years Simple slander prescribes in 2 months and
c. correctional penalties 10 years, grave slander in 6 months.
d. except those punishable by Since destierro is a correctional penalty, it
arresto mayor which shall prescribe prescribes in 10 years. For afflictive
in 5 years penalties, period is 15 years.
2. Crime of libel 1 year If it is a compound penalty, basis will be the
3. Offenses of oral defamation and slander by highest penalty.

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If fine is an alternative penalty (imposed
together with a penalty lower than the fine),
fine shall be the basis.
Prescription begins to run from the discovery
thereof. It is interrupted when proceedings
are instituted and shall begin to run again
when the proceedings are dismissed.
If an accused fails to move to quash before
pleading, he is deemed to have waived all
objections, except if the grounds are:
1. facts charged do not constitute an
offense
2. court has no jurisdiction
3. criminal action or liability has been
extinguished
4. the averments, if true, would
constitute a legal excuse or
justification (See Rule 117, Sec 9,
RoC)
Prescription does not take away the courts
jurisdiction but only absolves the defendant
and acquits him.
ART. 91: COMPUTATION OF PRESCRIPTION OF
OFFENSES
NOTES:
If there is nothing concealed (appears in a
public document), the crime commences to
run on the date of the commission.
The period of prescription for crimes which
continue never runs.
Crime needs to be discovered by:
1. offended party
2. authorities
3. their agents
If a person witnesses the crime but only tells
the authorities 25 years later, prescription
commences on the day the authorities were
told.
What Interrupts Prescription?
1. preliminary examination or investigation
which is similar to judicial proceeding
2. filing the proper complaint with the
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proper jurisdiction
The Period Commences To Run Again When The
Proceeding Is Terminated:
1. Without the accused being convicted or
acquitted
2. The proceeding is unjustifiably stopped for a
reason not imputable to the offender
When such proceedings terminate termination
that is final; an unappealed conviction or acquittal
Unjustifiably stopped for any reason ex:
accused evades arrest, proceedings must be stopped
NOTE: Art. 91 applies to a special law when said law
does not provide for the application but only provides
for the period of prescription.
ART. 92: WHEN AND HOW PENALTIES
PRESCRIBE
NOTES:
Final sentence must be imposed.
If a convict can avail of mitigating
circumstances and the penalty is lowered, it
is still the original penalty that is used as the
basis for prescription. However, if the convict
already serves a portion of his sentence and
escapes after, the penalty that was imposed
(not the original) shall be the basis for
prescription.
Fines less than P200 fall under light penalty.
Those above are correccional.
ART. 93: COMPUTATION OF THE PRESCRIPTION
OF PENALTIES
The period of prescription commences to run from
the date when the culprit evaded the service of his
sentence.
Requisites:
1. Penalty is imposed by final sentence.
2. Convict evaded service of the sentence by
escaping during the term of his sentence.
3. Convict has not given himself up, or been
captured, or gone to a foreign country with
which we have no extradition treaty, or
committed another crime.
4. Penalty has prescribed, because of the
lapse of time from the date of the evasion of
the service of the sentence.
Interruption Of The Period:
If the convict
1. gives himself up
2. be captured
3. goes to a foreign country with which the
Philippines has no extradition treaty
4. commits another crime before the expiration
of the period of prescription
5. accepts a conditional pardon
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NOTES:
If a government has an extradition treaty with
the country to which a convict escaped, but
the crime is not included in the treaty, the
running of the prescription is still interrupted.
Evasion of sentence starts the running of the
prescription. It does not interrupt it.
Acceptance of the conditional pardon
interrupts the prescription period.
Rolito Go case: Since he was captured, he
is only supposed to serve the remainder of
his sentence. Reason: During the period he
escaped, his existence was one of fear and
discomfort.
ART. 94: PARTIAL EXTINCTION OF
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Conditional pardon contract between the
sovereign power of the executive and the convict
NOTE: Convict shall not violate any of the penal laws
of the Philippines.
In Case Of Violation Of Conditions:
1. Offender is re-arrested and re-incarcerated
2. Prosecution under Art. 159
COMMUTATION change in the decision of the
court by the chief regarding the:
1. degree of the penalty
2. by decreasing the length of the
imprisonment or fine
Commutation Allowed When:
1. person is over 70 years old
2. 8 justices fail to reach a decision affirming
the death penalty
NOTES:
Consent is not necessary in commutation.
Prisoner is also allowed special time
allowance for loyalty which is 1/5 deduction
of the period of his sentence.
PAROLE consists in the suspension of the
sentence of a convict after serving the minimum term
of the indeterminate penalty, without granting pardon,
prescribing the terms upon which the sentence shall
be suspended. In case his parole conditions are not
observed, a convict may be returned to the custody
and continue to serve his sentence without deducting
the time that elapsed.
Good conduct allowance during confinement
Deduction for the term of sentence for good behavior
Allowances For Good Conduct Per Year
Years Allowance
First 2 years 5 days per month of good
behavior
3rd to 5th years 8 days per month of good
behavior
Following years up to 10 days per month of good
10th year behavior
11th year and 15 days per month of good
successive years behavior
NOTE: Condition of pardon is limited to unserved
portion of the sentence, unless an intention to extend
it beyond the time is manifest.
ART. 96: EFFECT OF COMMUTATION OF
SENTENCE
ART. 97: ALLOWANCE FOR GOOD CONDUCT

CONDITIONAL PARDON PAROLE NOTES:

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good conduct time allowance is given in
Granted by Chief Given by the Board of
consideration of good conduct of prisoner
Executive Pardons and Parole while he is serving sentence.
For violation, convict may For violations, may be
ART. 98: SPECIAL TIME ALLOWANCE
be prosecuted under 159 rearrested, convict serves
FOR LOYALTY
remaining sentence

ART. 95: OBLIGATION INCURRED BY PERSON

GRANTED CONDITIONAL PARDON
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NOTES:
The article applies only to prisoners who
escaped.
There is a deduction of 1/5 of the period of
sentence of prisoner who, having evaded the
service of his sentence during the calamity or
catastrophe mentioned in Art 158, gives
himself up to the authorities within 48 hours
following the issuance of the proclamation by
the President announcing the passing away
of the calamity or catastrophe.
The deduction is based on the original
sentence and not on the unexpired portion.
Art 158 provides for increased penalties:
A convict who has evaded the service of his
sentence by leaving the penal institution on
the occasion of disorder resulting from
conflagration, earthquake or similar
catastrophe or during mutiny in which he did
not participate is liable to an increased
penalty (1/5 of the time still remaining to be
served not to exceed 6 months), if he fails
to give himself up to the authorities within 48
hours following the issuance of a
proclamation by the President announcing
the passing away of the calamity.
ART. 99: WHO GRANTS TIME
ALLOWANCES
NOTES:
The authority to grant time allowance for
good conduct is exclusively vested in the
Director. (e.g. provincial warden cannot usurp
Directors authority)
It is not an automatic right, and once granted,
cannot be revoked by him.
Title Five
CIVIL LIABILITY
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Chapter One
PERSON CIVILLY LIABLE FOR FELONIES
TWO CLASSES OF CIVIL LIABILITY
1. social injury produced by disturbance and
alarm which are the outcome of the offense
2. personal injury caused by the victim who
may have suffered damage, either to his
person, property, honor or chastity
ART. 100: CIVIL LIABILITY OF A
PERSON GUILTY OF FELONY
Dual Character Of The Crime As Against:
1. the state, because of the disturbance of
peace and order
2. the private person injured, unless it involves
the crime of treason, rebellion, espionage,
contempt and others where no civil liability
arises on the part of the offender either
because there are no damages or there is
no private person injured by the crime
Damage that may be recovered in criminal cases:
1. Crimes against persons, like crime of
physical injuries whatever he spent for
treatment of wounds, doctors fees,
medicines as well as salary or wages
unearned
2. Moral Damages: seduction, abduction, rape
or other lascivious acts, adultery or
concubinage, illegal or arbitrary detention or
arrest, illegal search, libel, slander or any
other form of defamation, malicious
prosecution
3. Exemplary Damages: imposed when crime
was committed with one or more
aggravating circumstances
NOTES:
If there is no damage caused by the
commission of the crime, offender is not
civilly liable.
Dismissal of the information or the criminal
action does not affect the right of the
offended party to institute or continue the civil
action already instituted arising from the
offense, because such dismissal does not
carry with it the extinction of the civil one.
When accused is acquitted on ground that
his guilt has not been proven beyond
reasonable doubt, a civil action for damages
for the same act or omission may be
instituted.
Exemption from criminal liability in favor of an
imbecile or insane person, and a person
under 15 years, or over 15 but under 18 who
acted without discernment and those acting
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under the impulse of irresistible force or
under the impulse of an uncontrollable fear of
an equal or greater injury does not include
exemption from civil liability.
Acquittal in the criminal action for negligence
does not preclude the offended party from
filing a civil action to recover damages,
based on the theory that the act is a quasi-
delict.
When the court found the accused guilty of
criminal negligence but failed to enter
judgment of civil liability, the private
prosecutor has a right to appeal for the
purposes of the civil liability of the accused.
The appellate court may remand the case to
the trial court for the latter to include in its
judgment the civil liability of the accused
Before expiration of the 15-day period to
appeal, the trial court can amend the
judgment of conviction by adding a provision
for the civil liability of the accused, even if the
convict has started serving the sentence.
If offender dies prior to the institution of the
action or prior to the finality of judgment, civil
liability ex delicto is extinguished.
An independent civil action may be brought
by the injured party during the pendency of
the criminal case provided the right is
reserved. Reservation is necessary in the
following cases: (according to Herrera, no
reservation needed)
i. any of the cases referred to in Art 32
(perpetual or temporary
disqualification for exercise of the
right of suffrage)
ii. defamation, fraud and physical injury
(bodily injury and not the crime of
physical injury)
iii. civil action is against a member of a
city or municipal police force for
refusing or failing to render aid or
protection to any person in case of
danger to life or property
Prejudicial Question one which arises in a case,
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issue involved in said case and the cognizance of
which pertains to another tribunal. (elements
provided in Rule 111, Section 7 of RoC)
For the principle to apply, it is essential that there be
2 cases involved, a civil and a criminal case.
Prejudicial questions must be decided before any
criminal prosecution may be instituted or may
proceed.
ART. 101: RULES REGARDING CIVIL
LIABILITY IN CERTAIN CASES
General Rule: Exemption from criminal liability does
not include exemption from civil liability.
Exception: No civil liability in Art. 12, par. 4 (injury
caused by mere accident) and par. 7 (failure to
perform an act required by law when prevented by
some lawful or insuperable cause).
Pars. 1,2,3,5 and 6 are NOT exempt from civil
liability although exempt from criminal liability.
Who Are Civilly Liable For: -
1. acts of insane or minor exempt from
criminal liability
a. primarily persons having legal
authority or control over him, if at
fault or negligent (except if proven
that they acted without fault or with
due diligence)
b. If there is no fault or negligence, or
even with fault but are insolvent and
there are no persons having legal
authority over them, the
property of the insane, minor or
imbecile not exempt from execution
shall be held liable.
2. over 15 but under 18, with discernment
a. The father and, in case of his death
or incapacity, the mother, are
responsible for the damages caused
by the minor children who live in
their company.
b. Guardians over minors who are
under their authority and live in their
company
c. If there are no parents or guardian,
the minor or insane person shall be
answerable with his own property in
an action against him where a
guardian ad litem shall be appointed.
NOTE: Final release of a child based on good
conduct does not remove his civil liability for
damages.
3. persons acting under an irresistible force
or uncontrollable fear Persons using
violence or causing the fear are primarily
liable. If there are none, those doing the act
are responsible.
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General Rule: no civil liability in justifying
circumstances
Exception: par. 4 of Art. 11, where a person
does an act, causing damage to another, in
order to avoid evil or injury, the person
benefited by the prevention of the evil or
injury shall be civilly liable in proportion to the
benefit he received.
Civil liability in case of state of necessity
Those who benefited by the act are liable. The
court shall determine the proportionate amount
for which each shall be liable. If the government
or majority of the inhabitants are held
responsible, such will be determined by special
laws or regulations.
ART. 102: SUBSIDIARY CIVIL LIABILITY OF
INNKEEPERS, TAVERNKEEPERS AND
PROPRIETORS OF ESTABLISHMENTS
PAR. 1
Requisites:
1. The innkeeper, tavernkeeper or proprietor of
the establishment or his employee
committed a violation of municipal ordinance
or some general or special police regulation.
2. A crime is committed in such establishment.
3. The person criminally liable is insolvent.
NOTE: When all these are present, the innkeeper,
tavernkeeper or any other person or corporation is
subsidiarily liable for the crime committed in his
establishment.
PAR. 2:
Requisites:
1. The guests notified in advance the
innkeeper of the deposit of such goods
within the inn or house.
2. The guests followed the directions of the
innkeeper or his representative with respect
to the care of and vigilance over such goods.
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ART. 103: SUBSIDIARY CIVIL LIABILITY OF
OTHER PERSONS
Requisites:
1. The employer, teacher, person or
corporation is engaged in any kind of
industry.
2. Any of their servants, pupils, workmen,
apprentices or employees commits a felony
while in the discharge of his duties.
3. The said employee is insolvent and has not
satisfied his civil liability.
Industry any department or branch of art,
occupation or business; especially one w/c employs
so much labor and capital is a distinct branch of trade
NOTES:
Hospitals are not engaged in industry; hence,
they are not subsidiarily liable for acts of
nurses.
Private persons without business or industry
are not subsidiarily liable.
A separate trial is not necessary to enforce
the subsidiary liability of the employer. The
judgment obligee only needs to file a motion
for subsidiary execution. During the hearing
of the said motion, it is incumbent upon the
movant to prove that; (1) an employer-
employee relationship exists; (2) the
employer is engaged in an industry; (3) the
convict committed the crime while in the
discharge of his duties; and (4) the writ of
execution was returned unsatisfied.
The employers subsidiary liability arises
when it is proved that the convict committed
the crime while at the service of the employer
and the writ of execution issued against the
accused is returned unsatisfied. On the other
hand, if the convict committed the crime but
NOT while in the service of an employer and
he cannot pay his civil liability, Art. 39 on
subsidiary penalty will apply.
CIVIL LIABILITIES PECUNIARY
LIABILITIES
Includes reparation and Same
indemnification
No restitution as the
Includes restitution (return
liabilities are to paid out of
property taken), nothing to
pay in terms of money the property of the
offender
No fines and costs of Includes fines and costs of
proceedings proceedings
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property may be reimbursed with the price

Chapter Two paid therefor if it be acquired at (a) a public
WHAT CIVIL LIABILITY INCLUDES sale and (b) in good faith.
Circumstances which bar an action for
recovery: (a) torrens title, (b) when sale is
authorized
When the liability to return a thing arises from
ART. 104: WHAT IS INCLUDED IN CIVIL a contract, and not from a criminal act, the
court cannot order its return in the criminal
case.
Restitution may be ordered, even if
NOTE: The first remedy granted by law is restitution
accused is acquitted, provided the offense
of the thing taken away by the offender; if restitution
is proved and it is shown that the thing
cannot be made by the offender or by his heirs, the
belongs to someone else.
law allows the offended party reparation. In either
When crime is not against property, no
case, indemnity for consequential damages may be
restitution or reparation of the thing can be
required.
done.
Payment of salary of an employee during the
Restitution In theft, the culprit is duty bound to
period of suspension cannot, as a general
return the property stolen.
rule, be properly decreed by the court in a
judgment of acquittal. It devolves upon the
Reparation In case of inability to return the
head of the department concerned to do so.
property stolen, the culprit must pay the value of the
The court has authority to order the
property stolen.
reinstatement of the accused acquitted of a
In case of physical injuries, the reparation of the
crime punishable by the penalty of perpetual
damage caused would consist in the payment of
or temporary disqualification.
hospital bills and doctors fees to the offended party.

Indemnification the loss of salary or earnings

ART. 106: REPARATION; HOW MADE
NOTES:
ART. 105: RESTITUTION; HOW MADE The court orders reparation if restitution is
not possible.
Reparation shall be: the price of the thing,
NOTES:
plus its sentimental value.
The convict cannot, by way of restitution,
If there is no evidence as to the value of the
give to the offended party a similar thing of
thing unrecovered, reparation cannot be
the same amount, kind or species and
made.
quality. The very thing should be returned.
Payment by the insurance company does not
If the property stolen while in the possession
relieve the offender of his obligation to repair
of the third party suffers deterioration due to
the damage caused.
his fault, the court will assess the amount of
Damages shall be limited to those caused by
the deterioration and, in addition to the return
the crime.
of the property, the culprit will be ordered to
The accused is liable for the damages
pay such amount.
caused as a result of the destruction of the
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either because it was lost or destroyed by the
is in possession thereof. Thus, even if the
rd accused himself or that by any other person
property stolen was acquired by a 3 person
or as a result of any other cause or causes.
by purchase without knowing that it has been
stolen, such property will be returned to the
owner. ART. 107: INDEMNIFICATION; WHAT IS
If the thing is acquired by a person knowing INCLUDED
that it was stolen, then he is an accessory
NOTES:
and therefore criminally liable.
Indemnity refers to crimes against persons
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Indemnity for medical services still unpaid
may be recovered.
Contributory negligence on the part of the
offended party reduces the civil liability of the
offender.
The civil liability may be increased only if it
will not require an aggravation of the decision
in the criminal case on which it is based.
The amount of damages for death shall be at
least 50,000, even though there may have
been mitigating circumstances.
In addition:
1. payment for the loss of the earning
capacity of the deceased
2. If the deceased was obliged to give
support, the recipient, who is not an
heir, may demand support from the
defendant.
3. The spouse, illegitimate descendants
and ascendants of the deceased
may demand for moral damages.
Moral damages may be recovered in the
following:
1. physical injuries
2. seduction, abduction, rape
3. adultery, concubinage
4. illegal or arbitrary detention
5. illegal search
6. libel, slander, defamation
7. malicious prosecution
ART. 108: OBLIGATION TO MAKE
RESTORATION, REPARATION FOR DAMAGES,
OR INDEMNIFICATION FOR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES AND ACTIONS TO DEMAND THE
SAME; UPON WHOM IT DEVOLVES
NOTES:
The heirs of the person liable has no
obligation if restoration is not possible and
the deceased left no property.
Civil liability is possible only when the
offender dies after final judgment.
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rendered against him, the action for
restitution must necessarily be dismissed.
ART. 109: SHARE OF EACH PERSON CIVILLY
LIABLE
NOTE: In case of insolvency of the accomplices, the
principal shall be subsidiarily liable for their share of
the indemnity. In case of the insolvency of the
principal, the accomplices shall be subsidiarily liable,
jointly and severally liable, for the indemnity due from
said principal.
ART. 110: SEVERAL AND SUBSIDIARY
LIABILITY OF PRINCIPALS, ACCOMPLICES
AND ACCESSORIES OF A FELONY;
PREFERENCE IN PAYMENT
Each class of principals, accomplices and
accessories is liable solidary for their share and
subsidiarily liable for the share of the other classes.
Preference In Enforcement Of Subsidiary
Liability:
1. against the property of the principal
2. against that of the accomplice
3. against that of the accessories
ART. 111: OBLIGATION TO MAKE
RESTITUTION IN CERTAIN CASES
NOTES:
This refers to a person who has participated
gratuitously in the proceeds of a felony and
he is bound to make restitution in an amount
equivalent to the extent of such participation.
The third person must be innocent of the
commission of the crime, otherwise he would
be liable as an accessory and this article will
not apply.
Ex. A stole a ring worth 1k which he gave to B who
accepted it without knowledge that it was stolen. B
sold the ring to C for 500. B is liable to make
restitution up to 500 only.
Chapter Three
EXTINCTION AND SURVIVAL OF CIVIL
LIABILITY
ART. 112: EXTINCTION OF CIVIL LIABILITY
Civil Liability Is Extinguished By:
1. payment or performance
2. loss of the thing due
3. condonation or remission of the debt
4. confusion or merger of the rights of creditor
and debtor
5. compensation
6. novation
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ART. 113: OBLIGATION TO SATISFY CIVIL
LIABILITY
NOTES:
Unless extinguished, civil liability subsists
even if the offender has served sentence
consisting of deprivation of liberty or other
rights or has not served the same, due to
amnesty, pardon, commutation of the
sentence or any other reason.
Under the law as amended, even if the
subsidiary imprisonment is served for non-
payment of fines, this pecuniary liability of the
defendant is not extinguished.
While amnesty wipes out all traces and
vestiges of the crime, it does not extinguish
the civil liability of the offender. A pardon shall
in no case exempt the culprit from the
payment of the civil indemnity imposed upon
him by the sentence.
Probation affects only the criminal aspect of
the crime.
BOOK II
TITLE ONE
CRIMES AGAINST NATIONAL SECURITY
AND THE LAW OF NATIONS
Section 1 Treason and Espionage
ART 114. TREASON
ELEMENTS:
1. Offender is a Filipino citizen or an alien
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2. Theres a war in and Philippines is
involved; and
3. Offender either
a. Levies war against the
government; or
b. Adheres to enemies, giving aid or
comfort.
NOTES:
Treason breach of allegiance to the
government by a person who owes
allegiance to it.
Allegiance obligation of fidelity and
obedience which individuals owe to the
government under which they live or to their
sovereign, in return for protection they
receive
Treason is a war crime - punished by state
as a measure of self-protection
Committed in times of war (not peace)
when
- there is actual hostilities
- no need for a declaration of war.
Mere acceptance of public office and
discharge of official duties under the enemy
do not constitute per se the felony of treason.
But when the position is policy-determining,
the acceptance of public office and the
discharge of official duties constitute treason.
PERSONS LIABLE:
1. Filipino permanent allegiance; can commit
treason anywhere
2. Alien Residing temporary allegiance;
commit treason only while residing in
Philippines
NOTES:
Treason committed in a foreign country may
be prosecuted in the Philippines. (Art.2,
RPC)
Treason by an alien must be committed in
the Philippines. (EO 44).
WAYS TO COMMIT TREASON:
1. Levying war against government - requires:
a. Actual assembling of men
b. Purpose of executing a treasonable
design, by force
2. Adheres to enemies following must
concur together:
a. Actual adherence
b. Give aid or comfort
NOTES:
Levying war - must be with intent to
overthrow the government as such, not
merely to repeal a particular statute or to
resist a particular officer.
Not necessary that those attempting to
overthrow the government by force of arms
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