crim law
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- is that branch of law which defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment
- is defined as an act committed or omitted in violation of public law forbidding or commanding it
- is a person formally charged in court for having violated a penal law – either the Revised Penal Code or a special law
- 5 Sources of Philippine Criminal Law:
- meaning that a penal law cannot make an act punishable when it was not punishable when committed.
- Exceptions to the general application of criminal law:
- our criminal law undertakes to punish crimes committed only with the Philippine territory. Outside of the parameters of the Philippines archipelago, Philippine criminal laws cannot be enforced.
- meaning that a penal law
- are acts and omissions punishable by law. The word “felony” has been understood to mean an act or omission punished by the Code; it does not cover a crime punished by special laws.
- that is, when the act is performed with deliberate intent, but also by means of fault (culpa) meaning, when the wrongful act results from imprudence, negligence, lack of foresight, or lack of skill.
- punishable by special laws
- those which the law attaches the capital punishment or penalties which in any of their periods are afflictive in accordance with Art. 25 of the RPC
- those which the law punishes with penalties which in their maximum period are correctional
- those infractions of law for the commission of which the penalty of arresto menor or a fine not exceeding two hundred pesos, or both, is provided
- crime which are wrong from their nature, such as murder, theft, rape, etc.
- are wrong, merely because they are prohibited by statute, like illegal
- (mistake in the identity of the victim)
- (mistake in the blow)
- (injurious result is greater than that intended)
- an act performed with malice which would have been an offense against persons or property, were it not for the inherent impossibility of its accomplishment or on account of the employment of inadequate or ineffectual means. This Court, having in mind the
- giving a person a drink mixed with sugar which the accused believed to be poison
- if it were really poison, the quantity is not sufficient to kill
- it exists when two or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of a felony and decide to commit it
- it exists when the person who has decided to commit a felony proposes its execution to some other person or persons
- the basis of criminal liability is human free will and the purpose of the penalty is retribution
- the basis of criminal liability is the sum of the social, natural and economic phenomena to which the actor is exposed. The purposes of penalty are prevention and correction
- combines the good features of classical and positivist theories
- such crimes are not triable in the courts of that country, unless their commission affects the peace and security of the territory or the safety of the state is endangered
- such crimes are triable in that country, unless they merely affect things within the vessel or they refer to the internal management thereof
- are acts and omissions punishable by the Revised Penal Code
- is the moving power which impels one to action for a definite result
- is the purpose to use a particular means to effect such result
- whenever a penal law is be construed or applied and the law admits of two interpretation, one lenient to the offender and one strict to the offender, that interpretation which is lenient or favourable to the offender will be adopted
- these are crimes that are consummated in a single act. They do not admit stages of execution. Examples: Slander (oral defamation), libel, perjury, slilght physical injuries
- are crimes which have various stages of execution
- these are crimes where all the elements took place in one jurisdiction, such as theft, homicide.
- these are crimes where the elements took place in different jurisdictions such as estafa, kidnapping and abduction
- these are crimes which involve the use of force, violence, terror, fraud, deception, economic pressure, or any other illegal means, to create, maintain, or enhance the power, interest, or ideology of a group, organization, or institution, to the detriment
- these are crimes which require that the offended party file a complaint for the criminal case to be instituted
- it is that cause, which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury without which the result would not have occurred
- it indicates deficiency of action, failure to take the necessary precaution to avoid injury to person or damage to property
- it indicates deficiency of perception, failure to pay proper attention, and to use diligence in foreseeing the injury or damage impending to be caused
- it is one which makes criminal an act done before the passage of the law and which was innocent when done, and punishes such act
- it is the suffering that is inflicted by the State for the transgression of the law
- has the authority to enact penal laws
- it is a minor infraction of the law, such as a violation of an ordinance
- El que es causa de la causa es causa del mal causado – he who is the cause of the cause is the cause of the evil caused
- are those where the act of a person is said to be in accordance with law, so that such person is deemed not to have transgressed the law and is free from both criminal and civil liability.
- the 5 justifying circumstances
- are those where the actors are granted freedom from charge or immunity from burden for reasons of public policy and sentiment even if their acts constitute a crime.
- are those 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.
- is one who, while advanced in age, has a mental development comparable to that of children between 2 and 7 years of age.
- is a person who at the time of the commission of the offense is below 18 years old but not less than 15 years and one day old.
- refers to a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms found in women living in a battering relationships as a result of cumulative abuse
- is one who is repeatedly subjected to any forceful physical or psychological behavior by a man in order to coerce her to do something he wants her to do without concern for her rights. Battered woman include wives or women in any form of intimate relation
- are those 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.
- is one who, while advanced in age, has a mental development comparable to that of children between 2 and 7 years of age.
- Actus me invito factus non est meus actus
- are those which do not entirely free the actor from penal responsibility but serve only to lessen or reduce the penalty imposable
- Classes of mitigating circumstances: