Revised Penal Code

AN
ACT REVISING THE PENAL CODE AND OTHER PENAL LAWS

(December 8, 1930)

Preliminary Article This law shall be known as "The Revised Penal Code."
BOOK ONE
GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE DATE OF
ENFORCEMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE PROVISIONS
OF THIS CODE, AND REGARDING THE OFFENSES, THE
PERSONS LIABLE AND THE PENALTIES

Preliminary Title

DATE OF EFFECTIVENESS AND APPLICATION
OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE

Article 1. Time when Act takes effect. This Code shall take effect on the first
day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two.
Art. 2. Application of its provisions. Except as provided in the treaties and
laws of preferential application, the provisions of this Code shall be enforced
not only within the Philippine Archipelago, including its atmosphere, its
interior waters and maritime zone, but also outside of its jurisdiction, against
those who:
1. Should commit an offense while on a Philippine ship or airship
2. Should forge or counterfeit any coin or currency note of the Philippine
Islands or obligations and securities issued by the Government of the
Philippine Islands;
3. Should be liable for acts connected with the introduction into these islands
of the obligations and securities mentioned in the presiding number;
4. While being public officers or employees, should commit an offense in the
exercise of their functions; or
5. Should commit any of the crimes against national security and the law of
nations, defined in Title One of Book Two of this Code.
Title One
FELONIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES
WHICH AFFECT CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Chapter One
FELONIES

Art. 3. Definitions. Acts and omissions punishable by law are felonies
(delitos).
Felonies are committed not only be means of deceit (dolo) but also by means
of fault (culpa).
There is deceit when the act is performed with deliberate intent and there is
fault when the wrongful act results from imprudence, negligence, lack of
foresight, or lack of skill.
Art. 4. Criminal liability. Criminal liability shall be incurred:
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1. By any person committing a felony (delito) although the wrongful act done
be different from that which he intended.
2. By any person performing an act which would be an offense against persons
or property, were it not for the inherent impossibility of its accomplishment
or an account of the employment of inadequate or ineffectual means.
Art. 5. Duty of the court in connection with acts which should be repressed but
which are not covered by the law, and in cases of excessive penalties.
Whenever a court has knowledge of any act which it may deem proper to
repress and which is not punishable by law, it shall render the proper
decision, and shall report to the Chief Executive, through the Department of
Justice, the reasons which induce the court to believe that said act should be
made the subject of legislation.
In the same way, the court shall submit to the Chief Executive, through the
Department of Justice, such statement as may be deemed proper, without
suspending the execution of the sentence, when a strict enforcement of the
provisions of this Code would result in the imposition of a clearly excessive
penalty, taking into consideration the degree of malice and the injury caused
by the offense.
Art. 6. Consummated, frustrated, and attempted felonies. Consummated
felonies as well as those which are frustrated
and attempted, are punishable.

A felony is consummated when all the elements necessary for its execution
and accomplishment are present; and it is frustrated when the offender
performs all the acts of execution which would produce the felony as a
consequence but which, nevertheless, do not produce it by reason of causes
independent of the will of the perpetrator.
There is an attempt when the offender commences the commission of a felony
directly or over acts, and does not perform all the acts of execution which
should produce the felony by reason of some cause or accident other than this
own spontaneous desistance.
Art. 7. When light felonies are punishable. Light felonies are punishable only
when they have been consummated, with the exception of those committed
against person or property.
Art. 8. Conspiracy and proposal to commit felony. Conspiracy and proposal
to commit felony are punishable only in the cases in which the law specially
provides a penalty therefor.
A conspiracy exists when two or more persons come to an agreement
concerning the commission of a felony and decide to commit it.
There is proposal when the person who has decided to commit a felony
proposes its execution to some other person or persons.
Art. 9. Grave felonies, less grave felonies and light felonies. Grave felonies are
those to which the law attaches the capital punishment or penalties which in
any of their periods are afflictive, in accordance with Art. 25 of this Code.
Less grave felonies are those which the law punishes with penalties which in
their maximum period are correctional, in accordance with the above-
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Light felonies are those infractions of law for the commission of which a
penalty of arrest menor or a fine not exceeding 200 pesos or both; is
provided.
Art. 10. Offenses not subject to the provisions of this Code. Offenses which are
or in the future may be punishable under special laws are not subject to the
provisions of this Code. This Code shall be supplementary to such laws, unless
the latter should specially provide the contrary.

Chapter Two
JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES
AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH EXEMPT FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Art. 11. Justifying circumstances. The following do not incur any criminal
liability:

1. Anyone who acts in defense of his person or rights, provided that the
following circumstances concur;

First. Unlawful aggression.
Second. Reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel it.
Third. Lack of sufficient provocation on the part of the person defending
himself.
2. Any one who acts in defense of the person or rights of his spouse,
ascendants, descendants, or legitimate, natural or adopted brothers or sisters,
or his relatives by affinity in the same degrees and those consanguinity within
the fourth civil degree, provided that the first and second requisites
prescribed in the next preceding circumstance are present, and the further
requisite, in case the revocation was given by the person attacked, that the
one making defense had no part therein.
3. Anyone who acts in defense of the person or rights of a stranger, provided
that the first and second requisites mentioned in the first circumstance of this
Art. are present and that the person defending be not induced by revenge,
resentment, or other evil motive.
4. Any person who, in order to avoid an evil or injury, does not act which
causes damage to another, provided that the following requisites are present;

First. That the evil sought to be avoided actually exists;
Second. That the injury feared be greater than that done to avoid it;
Third. That there be no other practical and less harmful means of preventing
it.
5. Any person who acts in the fulfillment of a duty or in the lawful exercise of a
right or office.
6. Any person who acts in obedience to an order issued by a superior for some
lawful purpose.
Art. 12. Circumstances which exempt from criminal liability. the following
are exempt from criminal liability:
1. An imbecile or an insane person, unless the latter has acted during a lucid
interval.
When the imbecile or an insane person has committed an act which the law
defines as a felony (delito), the court shall order his confinement in one of the
hospitals or asylums established for persons thus afflicted, which he shall not
be permitted to leave without first obtaining the permission of the same
court.
2. A person under nine years of age.
3. A person over nine years of age and under fifteen, unless he has acted with
discernment, in which case, such minor shall be proceeded against in
accordance with the provisions of Art. 80 of this Code.
When such minor is adjudged to be criminally irresponsible, the court, in
conformably with the provisions of this and the preceding paragraph, shall
commit him to the care and custody of his family who shall be charged with his
surveillance and education otherwise, he shall be committed to the care of
some institution or person mentioned in said Art. 80.
4. Any person who, while performing a lawful act with due care, causes an
injury by mere accident without fault or intention of causing it.
5. Any person who act under the compulsion of irresistible force.
6. Any person who acts under the impulse of an uncontrollable fear of an equal
or greater injury.
7. Any person who fails to perform an act required by law, when prevented by
some lawful insuperable cause.
Chapter Three
CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH MITIGATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Art. 13. Mitigating circumstances. The following are mitigating
circumstances;
1. Those mentioned in the preceding chapter, when all the requisites
necessary to justify or to exempt from criminal liability in the respective cases
are not attendant.
2. That the offender is under eighteen year of age or over seventy years. In the
case of the minor, he shall be proceeded against in accordance with the
provisions of Art. 80.
3. That the offender had no intention to commit so grave a wrong as that
committed.
4. That sufficient provocation or threat on the part of the offended party
immediately preceded the act.
5. That the act was committed in the immediate vindication of a grave offense
to the one committing the felony (delito), his spouse, ascendants, or relatives
by affinity within the same degrees.
6. That of having acted upon an impulse so powerful as naturally to have
produced passion or obfuscation.
7. That the offender had voluntarily surrendered himself to a person in
authority or his agents, or that he had voluntarily confessed his guilt before
the court prior to the presentation of the evidence for the prosecution;
8. That the offender is deaf and dumb, blind or otherwise suffering some
physical defect which thus restricts his means of action, defense, or
communications with his fellow beings.
9. Such illness of the offender as would diminish the exercise of the will-power
of the offender without however depriving him of the consciousness of his
acts.
10. And, finally, any other circumstances of a similar nature and analogous to
those above mentioned.
Chapter Four
CIRCUMSTANCE WHICH AGGRAVATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Art. 14. Aggravating circumstances. The following are aggravating
circumstances:
1. That advantage be taken by the offender of his public position.
2. That the crime be committed in contempt or with insult to the public
authorities.
3. That the act be committed with insult or in disregard of the respect due the
offended party on account of his rank, age, or sex, or that is be committed in
the dwelling of the offended party, if the latter has not given provocation.
4. That the act be committed with abuse of confidence or obvious
ungratefulness.
5. That the crime be committed in the palace of the Chief Executive or in his
presence, or where public authorities are engaged in the discharge of their
duties, or in a place dedicated to religious worship.
6. That the crime be committed in the night time, or in an uninhabited place,
or by a band, whenever such circumstances may facilitate the commission of
the offense.
Whenever more than three armed malefactors shall have acted together in the
commission of an offense, it shall be deemed to have been committed by a
band.
7. That the crime be committed on the occasion of a conflagration, shipwreck,
earthquake, epidemic or other calamity or misfortune.
8. That the crime be committed with the aid of armed men or persons who
insure or afford impunity.
9. That the accused is a recidivist.
A recidivist is 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 this Code.
10. That the offender has been previously punished by 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.
11. That the crime be committed in consideration of a price, reward, or
promise.
12. That the crime be committed by means of inundation, fire, poison,
explosion, stranding of a vessel or international damage thereto, derailment
of a locomotive, or by the use of any other artifice involving great waste and
ruin.
13. That the act be committed with evidence premeditation.
14. That the craft, fraud or disguise be employed.
15. That advantage be taken of superior strength, or means be employed to
weaken the defense.
16. That the act be committed with treachery (alevosia).
There is treachery when the offender commits any of the crimes against the
person, employing means, methods, or forms in the execution thereof which
tend directly and specially to insure its execution, without risk to himself
arising from the defense which the offended party might make.
17. That means be employed or circumstances brought about which add
ignominy to the natural effects of the act.
18. That the crime be committed after an unlawful entry.
There is an unlawful entry when an entrance of a crime a wall, roof, floor,
door, or window be broken.
20. That the crime be committed with the aid of persons under fifteen years of
age or by means of motor vehicles, motorized watercraft, airships, or other
similar means. (As amended by RA 5438).
21. That the wrong done in the commission of the crime be deliberately
augmented by causing other wrong not necessary for its commissions.
Chapter Five
ALTERNATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES

Art. 15. Their concept. Alternative circumstances are 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.
They are the relationship, intoxication and the degree of instruction and
education of the offender.
The alternative circumstance of relationship shall be taken into consideration
when the offended party in the spouse, ascendant, descendant, legitimate,
natural, or adopted brother or sister, or relative by affinity in the same
degrees of the offender.
The intoxication of the offender shall be taken into consideration as a
mitigating circumstances when the offender has committed a felony in a state
of intoxication, if the same is not habitual or subsequent to the plan to commit
said felony but when the intoxication is habitual or intentional, it shall be
considered as an aggravating circumstance.

Title Two
PERSONS CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR FELONIES

Art. 16. Who are criminally liable. The following are criminally liable for
grave and less grave felonies:
1. Principals.
2. Accomplices.
3. Accessories.
The following are criminally liable for light felonies:
1. Principals
2. Accomplices.
Art. 17. Principals. The following are considered principals:
1. Those who take a direct part in the execution of the act;
2. Those who directly force or induce others to commit it;
3. Those who cooperate in the commission of the offense by another act
without which it would not have been accomplished.
Art. 18. Accomplices. Accomplices are those persons who, not being
included in Art. 17, cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous or
simultaneous acts.
Art. 19. Accessories. Accessories are those who, having knowledge of the
commission of the crime, and without having participated therein, either as
principals or accomplices, take part subsequent to its commission in any of
the following manners:
1. By profiting themselves or assisting the offender to profit by the effects of
the crime.
2. By concealing or destroying the body of the crime, or the effects or
instruments thereof, in order to prevent its discovery.
3. By harboring, concealing, or assisting in the escape of the principals of the
crime, provided the accessory acts with abuse of his public functions or
whenever the author of the crime is guilty of treason, parricide, murder, or an
attempt to take the life of the Chief Executive, or is known to be habitually
guilty of some other crime.
Art. 20. Accessories who are exempt from criminal liability. The penalties
prescribed for accessories shall not be imposed upon those who are such with
respect to their spouses, ascendants, descendants, legitimate, natural, and
adopted brothers and sisters, or relatives by affinity within the same degrees,
with the single exception of accessories falling within the provisions of
paragraph 1 of the next preceding article.

Title Three
P E N A L T I E S
Chapter One
PENALTIES IN GENERAL

Art. 21. Penalties that may be imposed. No felony shall be punishable by any
penalty not prescribed by law prior to its commission.
Art. 22. Retroactive effect of penal laws. Penal Laws shall have a retroactive
effect insofar as they favor the persons guilty of a felony, who is not a habitual
criminal, as this term is defined in Rule 5 of Article 62 of this Code, although at
the time of the publication of such laws a final sentence has been pronounced
and the convict is serving the same.
Art. 23. Effect of pardon by the offended party. A pardon of the offended
party does not extinguish criminal action except as provided in Article 344 of
this Code; but civil liability with regard to the interest of the injured party is
extinguished by his express waiver.
Art. 24. Measures of prevention or safety which are nor considered penalties.
The following shall not be considered as penalties:
1. The arrest and temporary detention of accused persons, as well as their
detention by reason of insanity or imbecility, or illness requiring their
confinement in a hospital.
2. The commitment of a minor to any of the institutions mentioned in Article
80 and for the purposes specified therein.
3. Suspension from the employment of public office during the trial or in order
to institute proceedings.
4. Fines and other corrective measures which, in the exercise of their
administrative disciplinary powers, superior officials may impose upon their
subordinates.
5. Deprivation of rights and the reparations which the civil laws may establish
in penal form.
Chapter Two
CLASSIFICATION OF PENALTIES

Art. 25. Penalties which may be imposed. The penalties which may be
imposed according to this Code, and their different classes, are those included
in the following:
Scale
Principal Penalties
Capital punishment:
Death.
Afflictive penalties:
Reclusion perpetua,
Reclusion temporal,
Perpetual or temporary absolute disqualification,
Perpetual or temporary special disqualification,
Prision mayor.
Correctional penalties:
Prision correccional,
Arresto mayor,
Suspension,
Destierro.
Light penalties:
Arresto menor,
Public censure.
Penalties common to the three preceding classes:
Fine, and
Bond to keep the peace.
Accessory Penalties
Perpetual or temporary absolute disqualification,
Perpetual or temporary special disqualification,
Suspension from public office, the right to vote and be voted for, the
profession or calling.
Civil interdiction,
Indemnification,
Forfeiture or confiscation of instruments and proceeds of the offense,
Payment of costs.
Art. 26. When afflictive, correctional, or light penalty. A fine, whether
imposed as a single of as an alternative penalty, shall be considered an
afflictive penalty, if it exceeds 6,000 pesos; a correctional penalty, if it does not
exceed 6,000 pesos but is not less than 200 pesos; and a light penalty if it less
than 200 pesos.

Chapter Three
DURATION AND EFFECTS OF PENALTIES
Section One. Duration of Penalties

Art. 27. Reclusion perpetua. Any person sentenced to any of the perpetual
penalties shall be pardoned after undergoing the penalty for thirty years,
unless such person by reason of his conduct or some other serious cause shall
be considered by the Chief Executive as unworthy of pardon.
Reclusion temporal. The penalty of reclusion temporal shall be from twelve
years and one day to twenty years.
Prision mayor and temporary disqualification. The duration of the penalties
of prision mayor and temporary disqualification shall be from six years and
one day to twelve years, except when the penalty of disqualification is
imposed as an accessory penalty, in which case its duration shall be that of the
principal penalty.
Prision correccional, suspension, and destierro. The duration of the penalties
of prision correccional, suspension and destierro shall be from six months and
one day to six years, except when suspension is imposed as an accessory
penalty, in which case, its duration shall be that of the principal penalty.
Arresto mayor. The duration of the penalty of arresto mayor shall be from
one month and one day to six months.
Arresto menor. The duration of the penalty of arresto menor shall be from
one day to thirty days.
Bond to keep the peace. The bond to keep the peace shall be required to
cover such period of time as the court may determine.
Art. 28. Computation of penalties. If the offender shall be in prison, the term
of the duration of the temporary penalties shall be computed from the day on
which the judgment of conviction shall have become final.
If the offender be not in prison, the term of the duration of the penalty
consisting of deprivation of liberty shall be computed from the day that the
offender is placed at the disposal of the judicial authorities for the
enforcement of the penalty. The duration of the other penalties shall be
computed only from the day on which the defendant commences to serve his
sentence.
Art. 29. Period of preventive imprisonment deducted from term of

imprisonment. Offenders who have undergone preventive imprisonment
shall be credited in the service of their sentence consisting of deprivation of
liberty, with the full time during which they have undergone preventive
imprisonment, if the detention prisoner agrees voluntarily in writing to abide
by the same disciplinary rules imposed upon convicted prisoners, except in
the following cases:
1. When they are recidivists or have been convicted previously twice or more
times of any crime; and
2. When upon being summoned for the execution of their sentence they have
failed to surrender voluntarily.
If the detention prisoner does not agree to abide by the same disciplinary
rules imposed upon convicted prisoners, he shall be credited in the service of
his sentence with four-fifths of the time during which he has undergone
preventive imprisonment. (As amended by Republic Act 6127, June 17, 1970).
Whenever an accused has undergone preventive imprisonment for a period
equal to or more than the possible maximum imprisonment of the offense
charged to which he may be sentenced and his case is not yet terminated, he
shall be released immediately without prejudice to the continuation of the
trial thereof or the proceeding on appeal, if the same is under review. In case
the maximum penalty to which the accused may be sentenced is destierro, he
shall be released after thirty (30) days of preventive imprisonment. (As
amended by E.O. No. 214, July 10, 1988).

Section Two. Effects of the penalties
according to their respective nature

Art. 30. Effects of the penalties of perpetual or temporary absolute
disqualification. The penalties of perpetual or temporary absolute
disqualification for public office shall produce the following effects:
1. The deprivation of the public offices and employments which the offender
may have held even if conferred by popular election.
2. The deprivation of the right to vote in any election for any popular office or
to be elected to such office.
3. The disqualification for the offices or public employments and for the
exercise of any of the rights mentioned.

In case of temporary disqualification, such disqualification as is comprised in
paragraphs 2 and 3 of this article shall last during the term of the sentence.
4. The loss of all rights to retirement pay or other pension for any office
formerly held.
Art. 31. Effect of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special
disqualification. The penalties of perpetual or temporal special
disqualification for public office, profession or calling shall produce the
following effects:
1. The deprivation of the office, employment, profession or calling affected;
2. The disqualification for holding similar offices or employments either

perpetually or during the term of the sentence according to the extent of such
disqualification.
Art. 32. Effect of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special disqualification
for the exercise of the right of suffrage. The perpetual or temporary special
disqualification for the exercise of the right of suffrage shall deprive the
offender perpetually or during the term of the sentence, according to the
nature of said penalty, of the right to vote in any popular election for any
public office or to be elected to such office. Moreover, the offender shall not be
permitted to hold any public office during the period of his disqualification.
Art. 33. Effects of the penalties of suspension from any public office, profession
or calling, or the right of suffrage. The suspension from public office,
profession or calling, and the exercise of the right of suffrage shall disqualify
the offender from holding such office or exercising such profession or calling
or right of suffrage during the term of the sentence.
The person suspended from holding public office shall not hold another
having similar functions during the period of his suspension.
Art. 34. Civil interdiction. Civil interdiction shall deprive the offender during
the time of his sentence of the rights of parental authority, or guardianship,
either as to the person or property of any ward, of marital authority, of the
right to manage his property and of the right to dispose of such property by
any act or any conveyance inter vivos.
Art. 35. Effects of bond to keep the peace. It shall be the duty of any person
sentenced to give bond to keep the peace, to present two sufficient sureties
who shall undertake that such person will not commit the offense sought to be
prevented, and that in case such offense be committed they will pay the
amount determined by the court in the judgment, or otherwise to deposit such
amount in the office of the clerk of the court to guarantee said undertaking.
The court shall determine, according to its discretion, the period of duration
of the bond.
Should the person sentenced fail to give the bond as required he shall be
detained for a period which shall in no case exceed six months, is he shall have
been prosecuted for a grave or less grave felony, and shall not exceed thirty
days, if for a light felony.
Art. 36. Pardon; its effect. A pardon shall not work the restoration of the
right to hold public office, or the right of suffrage, unless such rights be
expressly restored by the terms of the pardon.
A pardon shall in no case exempt the culprit from the payment of the civil
indemnity imposed upon him by the sentence.
Art. 37. Cost; What are included. Costs shall include fees and indemnities in
the course of the judicial proceedings, whether they be fixed or unalterable
amounts previously determined by law or regulations in force, or amounts not
subject to schedule.
Art. 38. Pecuniary liabilities; Order of payment. In case the property of the
offender should not be sufficient for the payment of all his pecuniary
liabilities, the same shall be met in the following order:
1. The reparation of the damage caused.

2. Indemnification of consequential damages.
3. The fine.
4. The cost of the proceedings.
Art. 39. Subsidiary penalty. If the convict has no property with which to
meet the fine mentioned in the paragraph 3 of the nest preceding article, he
shall be subject to a subsidiary personal liability at the rate of one day for each
eight pesos, subject to the following rules:
1. If the principal penalty imposed be prision correccional or arresto and fine,
he shall remain under confinement until his fine referred to in the preceding
paragraph is satisfied, but his subsidiary imprisonment shall not exceed one-
third of the term of the sentence, and in no case shall it continue for more than
one year, and no fraction or part of a day shall be counted against the
prisoner.
2. When the principal penalty imposed be only a fine, the subsidiary
imprisonment shall not exceed six months, if the culprit shall have been
prosecuted for a grave or less grave felony, and shall not exceed fifteen days, if
for a light felony.
3. When the principal imposed is higher than prision correccional, no
subsidiary imprisonment shall be imposed upon the culprit.
4. If the principal penalty imposed is not to be executed by confinement in a
penal institution, but such penalty is of fixed duration, the convict, during the
period of time established in the preceding rules, shall continue to suffer the
same deprivations as those of which the principal penalty consists.
5. The subsidiary personal liability which the convict may have suffered by
reason of his insolvency shall not relieve him, from the fine in case his
financial circumstances should improve. (As amended by RA 5465, April 21, 1969).
Section Three. Penalties in which other accessory penalties
are inherent

Art. 40. Death; Its accessory penalties. The death penalty, when it is not
executed by reason of commutation or pardon shall carry with it that of
perpetual absolute disqualification and that of civil interdiction during thirty
years following the date sentence, unless such accessory penalties have been
expressly remitted in the pardon.
Art. 41. Reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal; Their accessory
penalties. The penalties of reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal shall
carry with them that of civil interdiction for life or during the period of the
sentence as the case may be, and that of perpetual absolute disqualification
which the offender shall suffer even though pardoned as to the principal
penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon.
Art. 42. Prision mayor; Its accessory penalties. The penalty of prision mayor,
shall carry with it that of temporary absolute disqualification and that of
perpetual special disqualification from the right of suffrage which the
offender shall suffer although pardoned as to the principal penalty, unless the
same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon.
Art. 43. Prision correccional; Its accessory penalties. The penalty of prision
correccional shall carry with it that of suspension from public office, from the
right to follow a profession or calling, and that of perpetual special
disqualification from the right of suffrage, if the duration of said
imprisonment shall exceed eighteen months. The offender shall suffer the
disqualification provided in the article although pardoned as to the principal
penalty, unless the same shall have been expressly remitted in the pardon.
Art. 44. Arresto; Its accessory penalties. The penalty of arresto shall carry
with it that of suspension of the right too hold office and the right of suffrage
during the term of the sentence.
Art. 45. Confiscation and forfeiture of the proceeds or instruments of the
crime. Every penalty imposed for the commission of a felony shall carry
with it the forfeiture of the proceeds of the crime and the instruments or tools
with which it was committed.
Such proceeds and instruments or tools shall be confiscated and forfeited in
favor of the Government, unless they be property of a third person not liable
for the offense, but those articles which are not subject of lawful commerce
shall be destroyed.

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. The penalty
prescribed by law for the commission of a felony shall be imposed upon the
principals in the commission of such felony.
Whenever the law prescribes a penalty for a felony is general terms, it shall be
understood as applicable to the consummated felony.
Art. 47. In what cases the death penalty shall not be imposed. The death
penalty shall be imposed in all cases in which it must be imposed under
existing laws, except in the following cases:
1. When the guilty person be more than seventy years of age.
2. When upon appeal or revision of the case by the Supreme court, all the
members thereof are not unanimous in their voting as to the propriety of the
imposition of the death penalty. For the imposition of said penalty or for the
confirmation of a judgment of the inferior court imposing the death sentence,
the Supreme Court shall render its decision per curiam, which shall be signed
by all justices of said court, unless some member or members thereof shall
have been disqualified from taking part in the consideration of the case, in
which even the unanimous vote and signature of only the remaining justices
shall be required.
Art. 48. Penalty for complex crimes. When a single act constitutes two or
more grave or less grave felonies, or when an offense is a necessary means for
committing the other, the penalty for the most serious crime shall be imposed,
the same to be applied in its maximum period.
Art. 49. Penalty to be imposed upon the principals when the crime committed is
different from that intended. In cases in which the felony committed is
different from that which the offender intended to commit, the following rules
shall be observed:
1. If the penalty prescribed for the felony committed be higher than that
corresponding to the offense which the accused intended to commit, the
penalty corresponding to the latter shall
be imposed in its maximum period.
2. If the penalty prescribed for the felony committed be lower than that
corresponding to the one which the accused intended to commit, the penalty
for the former shall be imposed in its maximum period.
3. The rule established by the next preceding paragraph shall not be
applicable if the acts committed by the guilty person shall also constitute an
attempt or frustration of another crime, if the law prescribes a higher penalty
for either of the latter offenses, in which case the penalty provided for the
attempted or the frustrated crime shall be imposed in its maximum period.
Art. 50. Penalty to be imposed upon principals of a frustrated crime. The
penalty next lower in degree than that prescribed by law for the consummated
felony shall be imposed upon the principal in a frustrated felony.
Art. 51. Penalty to be imposed upon principals of attempted crimes. A penalty
lower by two degrees than that prescribed by law for the consummated felony
shall be imposed upon the principals in an attempt to commit a felony.
Art. 52. Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in consummated crime.
The penalty next lower in degree than that prescribed by law for the
consummated shall be imposed upon the accomplices in the commission of a
consummated felony.
Art. 53. Penalty to be imposed upon accessories to the commission of a
consummated felony. The penalty lower by two degrees than that
prescribed by law for the consummated felony shall be imposed upon the
accessories to the commission of a consummated felony.
Art. 54. Penalty to imposed upon accomplices in a frustrated crime. The
penalty next lower in degree than prescribed by law for the frustrated felony
shall be imposed upon the accomplices in the commission of a frustrated
felony.
Art. 55. Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of a frustrated crime. The
penalty lower by two degrees than that prescribed by law for the frustrated
felony shall be imposed upon the accessories to the commission of a
frustrated felony.
Art. 56. Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in an attempted crime.
The penalty next lower in degree than that prescribed by law for an attempt to
commit a felony shall be imposed upon the accomplices in an attempt to
commit the felony.
Art. 57. Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of an attempted crime. The
penalty lower by two degrees than that prescribed by law for the attempted
felony shall be imposed upon the accessories to the attempt to commit a
felony.
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Art. 58. Additional penalty to be imposed upon certain accessories. Those

accessories falling within the terms of paragraphs 3 of Article 19 of this Code
who should act with abuse of their public functions, shall suffer the additional
penalty of absolute perpetual disqualification if the principal offender shall be
guilty of a grave felony, and that of absolute temporary disqualification if he
shall be guilty of a 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. When the person
intending to commit an offense has already performed the acts for the
execution of the same but nevertheless the crime was not produced by reason
of the fact that the act intended was by its nature one of impossible
accomplishment or because the means employed by such person are
essentially inadequate to produce the result desired by him, the court, having
in mind the social danger and the degree of criminality shown by the offender,
shall impose upon him the penalty of arresto mayor or a fine from 200 to 500
pesos.
Art. 60. Exception to the rules established in Articles 50 to 57. The provisions
contained in Articles 50 to 57, inclusive, of this Code shall not be applicable to
cases in which the law expressly prescribes the penalty provided for a
frustrated or attempted felony, or to be imposed upon accomplices or
accessories.
Art. 61. Rules for graduating penalties. For the purpose of graduating the
penalties which, according to the provisions of Articles 50 to 57, inclusive, of
this Code, are to be imposed upon persons guilty as principals of any
frustrated or attempted felony, or as accomplices or accessories, the following
rules shall be observed:
1. When the penalty prescribed for the felony is single and indivisible, the
penalty next lower in degrees shall be that immediately following that
indivisible penalty in the respective graduated scale prescribed in Article 71
of this Code.
2. When the penalty prescribed for the crime is composed of two indivisible
penalties, or of one or more divisible penalties to be impose to their full
extent, the penalty next lower in degree shall be that immediately following
the lesser of the penalties prescribed in the respective graduated scale.
3. When the penalty prescribed for the crime is composed of one or two
indivisible penalties and the maximum period of another divisible penalty, the
penalty next lower in degree shall be composed of the medium and minimum
periods of the proper divisible penalty and the maximum periods of the
proper divisible penalty and the maximum period of that immediately
following in said respective graduated scale.
4. when the penalty prescribed for the crime is composed of several periods,
corresponding to different divisible penalties, the penalty next lower in
degree shall be composed of the period immediately following the minimum
prescribed and of the two next following, which shall be taken from the
penalty prescribed, if possible; otherwise from the penalty immediately
following in the above mentioned respective graduated scale.
5. When the law prescribes a penalty for a crime in some manner not
especially provided for in the four preceding rules, the courts, proceeding by
analogy, shall impose corresponding penalties upon those guilty as principals
of the frustrated felony, or of attempt to commit the same, and upon
accomplices and accessories.

TABULATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CHAPTER

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Reclusion
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Perpetua
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Correccional
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period.
period.

Section Two. Rules for the application of penalties with regard to the
mitigating and aggravating circumstances, and habitual delinquency.

Art. 62. Effect of the attendance of mitigating or aggravating circumstances and
of habitual delinquency. Mitigating or aggravating circumstances and
habitual delinquency shall be taken into account for the purpose of
diminishing or increasing the penalty in conformity with the following rules:
1. Aggravating circumstances which in themselves constitute a crime specially
punishable by law or which are included by the law in defining a crime and
prescribing the penalty therefor shall not be taken into account for the
purpose of increasing the penalty.
2. The same rule shall apply with respect to any aggravating circumstance
inherent in the crime to such a degree that it must of necessity accompany the
commission thereof.
3. Aggravating or mitigating circumstances which arise from the moral
attributes of the offender, or from his private relations with the offended
party, or from any other personal cause, shall only serve to aggravate or
mitigate the liability of the principals, accomplices and accessories as to whom
such circumstances are attendant.
4. The circumstances which consist in the material execution of the act, or in
the means employed to accomplish it, shall serve to aggravate or mitigate the
liability of those persons only who had knowledge of them at the time of the
execution of the act or their cooperation therein.
5. Habitual delinquency shall have the following effects:

(a) Upon a third conviction the culprit shall be sentenced to the penalty
provided by law for the last crime of which he be found guilty and to the
additional penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum
periods;
(b) Upon a fourth conviction, the culprit shall be sentenced to the penalty
provided for the last crime of which he be found guilty and to the additional
penalty of prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods; and
(c) Upon a fifth or additional conviction, the culprit shall be sentenced to the
penalty provided for the last crime of which he be found guilty and to the
additional penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period to reclusion
temporal in its minimum period.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, the total of the two penalties to
be imposed upon the offender, in conformity herewith, shall in no case exceed
30 years.
For the purpose of this article, a person shall be deemed to be habitual
delinquent, is 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,robo, hurto,
estafa or falsification, he is found guilty of any of said crimes a third time or
oftener.
Art. 63. Rules for the application of indivisible penalties. In all cases in which
the law prescribes a single indivisible penalty, it shall be applied by the courts
regardless of any mitigating or aggravating circumstances that may have
attended the commission of the deed.
In all cases in which the law prescribes a penalty composed of two indivisible
penalties, the following rules shall be observed in the application thereof:
1. When in the commission of the deed there is present only one aggravating
circumstance, the greater penalty shall be applied.
2. When there are neither mitigating nor aggravating circumstances and there
is no aggravating circumstance, the lesser penalty shall be applied.
3. When the commission of the act is attended by some mitigating
circumstances and there is no aggravating circumstance, the lesser penalty
shall be applied.
4. When both mitigating and aggravating circumstances attended the
commission of the act, the court shall reasonably allow them to offset one
another in consideration of their number and importance, for the purpose of
applying the penalty in accordance with the preceding rules, according to the
result of such compensation.
Art. 64. Rules for the application of penalties which contain three periods. In
cases in which the penalties prescribed by law contain three periods, whether
it be a single divisible penalty or composed of three different penalties, each
one of which forms a period in accordance with the provisions of Articles 76
and 77, the court shall observe for the application of the penalty the following
rules, according to whether there are or are not mitigating or aggravating
circumstances:
1. When there are neither aggravating nor mitigating circumstances, they

shall impose the penalty prescribed by law in its medium period.
2. When only a mitigating circumstances is present in the commission of the
act, they shall impose the penalty in its minimum period.
3. When an aggravating circumstance is present in the commission of the act,
they shall impose the penalty in its maximum period.
4. When both mitigating and aggravating circumstances are present, the court
shall reasonably offset those of one class against the other according to their
relative weight.
5. When there are two or more mitigating circumstances and no aggravating
circumstances are present, the court shall impose the penalty next lower to
that prescribed by law, in the period that it may deem applicable, according to
the number and nature of such circumstances.
6. Whatever may be the number and nature of the aggravating circumstances,
the courts shall not impose a greater penalty than that prescribed by law, in
its maximum period.
7. Within the limits of each period, the court shall determine the extent of the
penalty according to the number and nature of the aggravating and mitigating
circumstances and the greater and lesser extent of the evil produced by the
crime.
Art. 65. Rule in cases in which the penalty is not composed of three periods. In
cases in which the penalty prescribed by law is not composed of three periods,
the courts shall apply the rules contained in the foregoing articles, dividing
into three equal portions of time included in the penalty prescribed, and
forming one period of each of the three portions.
Art. 66. Imposition of fines. In imposing fines the courts may fix any amount
within the limits established by law; in fixing the amount in each case
attention shall be given, not only to the mitigating and aggravating
circumstances, but more particularly to the wealth or means of the culprit.
Art. 67. Penalty to be imposed when not all the requisites of exemption of the
fourth circumstance of Article 12 are present. When all the conditions
required in circumstances Number 4 of Article 12 of this Code to exempt from
criminal liability are not present, the penalty of arresto mayor in its maximum
period to prision correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon
the culprit if he shall have been guilty of a grave felony, and arresto mayor in
its minimum and medium periods, if of a less grave felony.
Art. 68. Penalty to be imposed upon a person under eighteen years of age.
When the offender is a minor under eighteen years and his case is one coming
under the provisions of the paragraphs next to the last of Article 80 of this
Code, the following rules shall be observed:
1. Upon a person under fifteen but over nine years of age, who is not exempted
from liability by reason of the court having declared that he acted with
discernment, a discretionary penalty shall be imposed, but always lower by
two degrees at least than that prescribed by law for the crime which he
committed.
2. Upon a person over fifteen and under eighteen years of age the penalty next
lower than that prescribed by law shall be imposed, but always in the proper
period.
Art. 69. Penalty to be imposed when the crime committed is not wholly
excusable. A penalty lower by one or two degrees than that prescribed by
law shall be imposed if the deed is not wholly excusable by reason of the lack
of some of the conditions required to justify the same or to exempt from
criminal liability in the several cases mentioned in Article 11 and 12, provided
that the majority of such conditions be present. The courts shall impose the
penalty in the period which may be deemed proper, in view of the number and
nature of the conditions of exemption present or lacking.
Art. 70. Successive service of sentence. When the culprit has to serve two or
more penalties, he shall serve them simultaneously if the nature of the
penalties will so permit otherwise, the following rules shall be observed:
In the imposition of the penalties, the order of their respective severity shall
be followed so that they may be executed successively or as nearly as may be
possible, should a pardon have been granted as to the penalty or penalties
first imposed, or should they have been served out.
For the purpose of applying the provisions of the next preceding paragraph
the respective severity of the penalties shall be determined in accordance
with the following scale:
1. Death,
2. Reclusion perpetua,
3. Reclusion temporal,
4. Prision mayor,
5. Prision correccional,
6. Arresto mayor,
7. Arresto menor,
8. Destierro,
9. Perpetual absolute disqualification,
10 Temporal absolute disqualification.
11. Suspension from public office, the right to vote and be voted for, the right
to follow a profession or calling, and
12. Public censure.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the rule next preceding, the maximum
duration of the convict's sentence shall not be more than three-fold the length
of time corresponding to the most severe of the penalties imposed upon him.
No other penalty to which he may be liable shall be inflicted after the sum
total of those imposed equals the same maximum period.
Such maximum period shall in no case exceed forty years.
In applying the provisions of this rule the duration of perpetual penalties
(pena perpetua) shall be computed at thirty years. (As amended).
Art. 71. Graduated scales. In the case in which the law prescribed a penalty
lower or higher by one or more degrees than another given penalty, the rules
prescribed in Article 61 shall be observed in graduating such penalty.
The lower or higher penalty shall be taken from the graduated scale in which
is comprised the given penalty.
The courts, in applying such lower or higher penalty, shall observe the
following graduated scales:
SCALE NO. 1
1. Death,
2. Reclusion perpetua,
3. Reclusion temporal,
4. Prision mayor,
5. Prision correccional,
6. Arresto mayor,
7. Destierro,
8. Arresto menor,
9. Public censure,
10. Fine.

SCALE NO. 2
1. Perpetual absolute disqualification,
2. Temporal absolute disqualification
3. Suspension from public office, the right to vote and be
voted for, the right to follow a profession or calling,
4. Public censure,
5. Fine.
Art. 72. Preference in the payment of the civil liabilities. The civil liabilities of
a person found guilty of two or more offenses shall be satisfied by following
the chronological order of the dates of the judgments rendered against him,
beginning with the first in order of time.

Section Three. Provisions common in the last two preceding sections
Art. 73. Presumption in regard to the imposition of accessory penalties .
Whenever the courts shall impose a penalty which, by provision of law, carries
with it other penalties, according to the provisions of Articles 40, 41, 42, 43
and 44 of this Code, it must be understood that the accessory penalties are
also imposed upon the convict.
Art. 74. Penalty higher than reclusion perpetua in certain cases. In cases in
which the law prescribes a penalty higher than another given penalty, without
specially designating the name of the former, if such higher penalty should be
that of death, the same penalty and the accessory penalties of Article 40, shall
be considered as the next higher penalty.
Art. 75. Increasing or reducing the penalty of fine by one or more degrees.
Whenever it may be necessary to increase or reduce the penalty of fine by one
or more degrees, it shall be increased or reduced, respectively, for each
degree, by one-fourth of the maximum amount prescribed by law, without
however, changing the minimum.
The same rules shall be observed with regard of fines that do not consist of a
fixed amount, but are made proportional.
Art. 76. Legal period of duration of divisible penalties. The legal period of
duration of divisible penalties shall be considered as divided into three parts,
forming three periods, the minimum, the medium, and the maximum in the
manner shown in the following table:
TABLE SHOWING THE DURATION OF DIVISIBLE PENALTIES AND THE TIME
INCLUDED IN EACH OF THEIR PERIODS

Penalties
Time
Time
Time
Time
included included included included
in the
in its
in its
in its
penalty minimum medium maximum
in its period period
entirety
Reclusion temporal From 12 From 12 From 14 From 17
years years and years, 8 years, 4
and 1 1 day to months months
day to 20 14 years and 1 and 1 day
years.
and 8 day to 17 to 20
months. years
years.
and 4
months.
Prision mayor,absolute From 6 From 6 From 8 From 10
disqualification and
years years and years years and
special temporary
and 1 1 day to 8 and 1 1 day to
disqualification
day to 12 years. day to 10 12 years.
years.
years.
Prision
From 6 From 6 From 2 From 4
correccional,suspension months months years, 4 years, 2
anddestierro
and 1 and 1 day months months
day to 6 to 2 years and 1 and 1 day
years.
and 4 day to 4 to 6 years.
months. years
and 2
months.
Arresto mayor
From 1 From 1 to From 2 From 4
month 2 months. months months
and 1
and 1 and 1 day
day to
day to 4
to 6
months.
months. months.
Arresto menor
From 1 From 1 to From 11 From 21
to 30 10 days. to 20 to 30 days.
days.
days.

Art. 77. When the penalty is a complex one composed of three distinct
penalties. In cases in which the law prescribes a penalty composed of three
distinct penalties, each one shall form a period; the lightest of them shall be
the minimum the next the medium, and the most severe the maximum
period.
Whenever the penalty prescribed does not have one of the forms specially
provided for in this Code, the periods shall be distributed, applying by analogy
the prescribed rules.

Chapter Five
EXECUTION AND SERVICE OF PENALTIES
Section One. General Provisions

Art. 78. When and how a penalty is to be executed. No penalty shall be
executed except by virtue of a final judgment.
A penalty shall not be executed in any other form than that prescribed by law,
nor with any other circumstances or incidents than those expressly
authorized thereby.
In addition to the provisions of the law, the special regulations prescribed for
the government of the institutions in which the penalties are to be suffered
shall be observed with regard to the character of the work to be performed,
the time of its performance, and other incidents connected therewith, the
relations of the convicts among themselves and other persons, the relief which
they may receive, and their diet.
The regulations shall make provision for the separation of the sexes in
different institutions, or at least into different departments and also for the
correction and reform of the convicts.
Art. 79. Suspension of the execution and service of the penalties in case of
insanity. When a convict shall become insane or an imbecile after final
sentence has been pronounced, the execution of said sentence shall be
suspended only with regard to the personal penalty, the provisions of the
second paragraph of circumstance number 1 of Article 12 being observed in
the corresponding cases.
If at any time the convict shall recover his reason, his sentence shall be
executed, unless the penalty shall have prescribed in accordance with the
provisions of this Code.
The respective provisions of this section shall also be observed if the insanity
or imbecility occurs while the convict is serving his sentence.
Art. 80. Suspension of sentence of minor delinquents. Whenever a minor of
either sex, under sixteen years of age at the date of the commission of a grave
or less grave felony, is accused thereof, the court, after hearing the evidence in
the proper proceedings, instead of pronouncing judgment of conviction, shall
suspend all further proceedings and shall commit such minor to the custody
or care of a public or private, benevolent or charitable institution, established
under the law of the care, correction or education of orphaned, homeless,
defective, and delinquent children, or to the custody or care of any other
responsible person in any other place subject to visitation and supervision by
the Director of Public Welfare or any of his agents or representatives, if there
be any, or otherwise by the superintendent of public schools or his

representatives, subject to such conditions as are prescribed hereinbelow
until such minor shall have reached his majority age or for such less period as
the court may deem proper.
The court, in committing said minor as provided above, shall take into
consideration the religion of such minor, his parents or next of kin, in order to
avoid his commitment to any private institution not under the control and
supervision of the religious sect or denomination to which they belong.
The Director of Public Welfare or his duly authorized representatives or
agents, the superintendent of public schools or his representatives, or the
person to whose custody or care the minor has been committed, shall submit
to the court every four months and as often as required in special cases, a
written report on the good or bad conduct of said minor and the moral and
intellectual progress made by him.
The suspension of the proceedings against a minor may be extended or
shortened by the court on the recommendation of the Director of Public
Welfare or his authorized representative or agents, or the superintendent of
public schools or his representatives, according as to whether the conduct of
such minor has been good or not and whether he has complied with the
conditions imposed upon him, or not. The provisions of the first paragraph of
this article shall not, however, be affected by those contained herein.
If the minor has been committed to the custody or care of any of the
institutions mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, with the approval
of the Director of Public Welfare and subject to such conditions as this official
in accordance with law may deem proper to impose, such minor may be
allowed to stay elsewhere under the care of a responsible person.
If the minor has behaved properly and has complied with the conditions
imposed upon him during his confinement, in accordance with the provisions
of this article, he shall be returned to the court in order that the same may
order his final release.
In case the minor fails to behave properly or to comply with the regulations of
the institution to which he has been committed or with the conditions
imposed upon him when he was committed to the care of a responsible
person, or in case he should be found incorrigible or his continued stay in such
institution should be inadvisable, he shall be returned to the court in order
that the same may render the judgment corresponding to the crime
committed by him.
The expenses for the maintenance of a minor delinquent confined in the
institution to which he has been committed, shall be borne totally or partially
by his parents or relatives or those persons liable to support him, if they are
able to do so, in the discretion of the court; Provided, That in case his parents
or relatives or those persons liable to support him have not been ordered to
pay said expenses or are found indigent and cannot pay said expenses, the
municipality in which the offense was committed shall pay one-third of said
expenses; the province to which the municipality belongs shall pay one-third;
and the remaining one-third shall be borne by the National Government:
Provided, however, That whenever the Secretary of Finance certifies that a

municipality is not able to pay its share in the expenses above mentioned,
such share which is not paid by said municipality shall be borne by the
National Government. Chartered cities shall pay two-thirds of said expenses;
and in case a chartered city cannot pay said expenses, the internal revenue
allotments which may be due to said city shall be withheld and applied in
settlement of said indebtedness in accordance with section five hundred and
eighty-eight of the Administrative Code.

Section Two. Execution of principal penalties.

Art. 81. When and how the death penalty is to be executed. The death
sentence shall be executed with reference to any other and shall consist in
putting the person under sentence to death by electrocution. The death
sentence shall be executed under the authority of the Director of Prisons,
endeavoring so far as possible to mitigate the sufferings of the person under
sentence during electrocution as well as during the proceedings prior to the
execution.
If the person under sentence so desires, he shall be anaesthetized at the
moment of the electrocution.
Art. 82. Notification and execution of the sentence and assistance to the
culprit. The court shall designate a working day for the execution but not
the hour thereof; and such designation shall not be communicated to the
offender before sunrise of said day, and the execution shall not take place
until after the expiration of at least eight hours following the notification, but
before sunset. During the interval between the notification and the execution,
the culprit shall, in so far as possible, be furnished such assistance as he may
request in order to be attended in his last moments by priests or ministers of
the religion he professes and to consult lawyers, as well as in order to make a
will and confer with members of his family or persons in charge of the
management of his business, of the administration of his property, or of the
care of his descendants.
Art. 83. Suspension of the execution of the death sentence. The death
sentence shall not be inflicted upon a woman within the three years next
following the date of the sentence or while she is pregnant, nor upon any
person over seventy years of age. In this last case, the death sentence shall be
commuted to the penalty of reclusion perpetua with the accessory penalties
provided in Article 40.
Art. 84. Place of execution and persons who may witness the same. The
execution shall take place in the penitentiary of Bilibid in a space closed to the
public view and shall be witnessed only by the priests assisting the offender
and by his lawyers, and by his relatives, not exceeding six, if he so request, by
the physician and the necessary personnel of the penal establishment, and by
such persons as the Director of Prisons may authorize.
Art. 85. Provisions relative to the corpse of the person executed and its burial.
Unless claimed by his family, the corpse of the culprit shall, upon the
completion of the legal proceedings subsequent to the execution, be turned

over to the institute of learning or scientific research first applying for it, for
the purpose of study and investigation, provided that such institute shall take
charge of the decent burial of the remains. Otherwise, the Director of Prisons
shall order the burial of the body of the culprit at government expense,
granting permission to be present thereat to the members of the family of the
culprit and the friends of the latter. In no case shall the burial of the body of a
person sentenced to death be held with pomp.
Art. 86. Reclusion perpetua, reclusion temporal, prision mayor, prision
correccional and arresto mayor. The penalties of reclusion perpetua,
reclusion temporal, prision mayor, prision correccional and arresto mayor,
shall be executed and served in the places and penal establishments provided
by the Administrative Code in force or which may be provided by law in the
future.
Art. 87. Destierro. Any person sentenced to destierro shall not be permitted
to enter the place or places designated in the sentence, nor within the radius
therein specified, which shall be not more than 250 and not less than 25
kilometers from the place designated.
Art. 88. Arresto menor. The penalty of arresto menor shall be served in the
municipal jail, or in the house of the defendant himself under the surveillance
of an officer of the law, when the court so provides in its decision, taking into
consideration the health of the offender and other reasons which may
seem satisfactory to it.

Title Four
EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Chapter One
TOTAL EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Art. 89. How criminal liability is totally extinguished. Criminal liability is
totally extinguished:
1. By the death of the convict, as to the personal penalties and as to pecuniary
penalties, liability therefor is extinguished only when the death of the
offender occurs before final judgment.
2. By service of the sentence;
3. By amnesty, which completely extinguishes the penalty and all its effects;
4. By absolute pardon;
5. By prescription of the crime;
6. By prescription of the penalty;
7. By the marriage of the offended woman, as provided in Article 344 of this
Code.
Art. 90. Prescription of crime. Crimes punishable by death, reclusion
perpetua or reclusion temporal shall prescribe in twenty years.
Crimes punishable by other afflictive penalties shall prescribe in fifteen
years.
Those punishable by a correctional penalty shall prescribe in ten years; with

the exception of those punishable by arresto mayor, which shall prescribe in
five years.
The crime of libel or other similar offenses shall prescribe in one year.
The crime of oral defamation and slander by deed shall prescribe in six
months.
Light offenses prescribe in two months.
When the penalty fixed by law is a compound one, the highest penalty shall be
made the basis of the application of the rules contained in the first, second and
third paragraphs of this article. (As amended by RA 4661, approved June 19, 1966).
Art. 91. Computation of prescription of offenses. The period of prescription
shall commence to run from the day on which the crime is discovered by the
offended party, the authorities, or their agents, and shall be interrupted by the
filing of the complaint or information, and shall commence to run again when
such proceedings terminate without the accused being convicted or acquitted,
or are unjustifiably stopped for any reason not imputable to him.
The term of prescription shall not run when the offender is absent from the
Philippine Archipelago.
Art. 92. When and how penalties prescribe. The penalties imposed by final
sentence prescribe as follows:
1. Death and reclusion perpetua, in twenty years;
2. Other afflictive penalties, in fifteen years;
3. Correctional penalties, in ten years; with the exception of the penalty of
arresto mayor, which prescribes in five years;
4. Light penalties, in one year.
Art. 93. Computation of the prescription of penalties. The period of
prescription of penalties shall commence to run from the date when the
culprit should evade the service of his sentence, and it shall be interrupted if
the defendant should give himself up, be captured, should go to some foreign
country with which this Government has no extradition treaty, or should
commit another crime before the expiration of the period of prescription.
Chapter Two
PARTIAL EXTINCTION OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Art. 94. Partial Extinction of criminal liability. Criminal liability is
extinguished partially:
1. By conditional pardon;
2. By commutation of the sentence; and
3. For good conduct allowances which the culprit may earn while he is serving
his sentence.
Art. 95. Obligation incurred by person granted conditional pardon. Any
person who has been granted conditional pardon shall incur the obligation of
complying strictly with the conditions imposed therein otherwise, his non-
compliance with any of the conditions specified shall result in the revocation
of the pardon and the provisions of Article 159 shall be applied to him.
Art. 96. Effect of commutation of sentence. The commutation of the original

sentence for another of a different length and nature shall have the legal effect
of substituting the latter in the place of the former.
Art. 97. Allowance for good conduct. The good conduct of any prisoner in any
penal institution shall entitle him to the following deductions from the period
of his sentence:
1. During the first two years of his imprisonment, he shall be allowed a
deduction of five days for each month of good behavior;
2. During the third to the fifth year, inclusive, of his imprisonment, he shall be
allowed a deduction of eight days for each month of good behavior;
3. During the following years until the tenth year, inclusive, of his
imprisonment, he shall be allowed a deduction of ten days for each month of
good behavior; and
4. During the eleventh and successive years of his imprisonment, he shall be
allowed a deduction of fifteen days for each month of good behavior.
Art. 98. Special time allowance for loyalty. A deduction of one-fifth of the
period of his sentence shall be granted to any prisoner who, having evaded the
service of his sentence under the circumstances mentioned in Article 58 of
this Code, gives himself up to the authorities within 48 hours following the
issuance of a proclamation announcing the passing away of the calamity or
catastrophe to in said article.
Art. 99. Who grants time allowances. Whenever lawfully justified, the
Director of Prisons shall grant allowances for good conduct. Such allowances
once granted shall not be revoked.

Title Five
CIVIL LIABILITY
Chapter One
PERSON CIVILLY LIABLE FOR FELONIES

Art. 100. Civil liability of a person guilty of felony. Every person criminally
liable for a felony is also civilly liable.
Art. 101. Rules regarding civil liability in certain cases. The exemption from
criminal liability established in subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of Article 12 and
in subdivision 4 of Article 11 of this Code does not include exemption from
civil liability, which shall be enforced subject to the following rules:
First. In cases of subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 of Article 12, the civil liability for acts
committed by an imbecile or insane person, and by a person under nine years
of age, or by one over nine but under fifteen years of age, who has acted
without discernment, shall devolve upon those having such person under
their legal authority or control, unless it appears that there was no fault or
negligence on their part.
Should there be no person having such insane, imbecile or minor under his
authority, legal guardianship or control, or if such person be insolvent, said
insane, imbecile, or minor shall respond with their own property, excepting
property exempt from execution, in accordance with the civil law.
Second. In cases falling within subdivision 4 of Article 11, the persons for
whose benefit the harm has been prevented shall be civilly liable in
proportion to the benefit which they may have received.
The courts shall determine, in sound discretion, the proportionate amount for
which each one shall be liable.
When the respective shares cannot be equitably determined, even
approximately, or when the liability also attaches to the Government, or to the
majority of the inhabitants of the town, and, in all events, whenever the
damages have been caused with the consent of the authorities or their agents,
indemnification shall be made in the manner prescribed by special laws or
regulations.
Third. In cases falling within subdivisions 5 and 6 of Article 12, the persons
using violence or causing the fears shall be primarily liable and secondarily,
or, if there be no such persons, those doing the act shall be liable, saving
always to the latter that part of their property exempt from execution.
Art. 102. Subsidiary civil liability of innkeepers, tavernkeepers and proprietors
of establishments. In default of the persons criminally liable, innkeepers,
tavernkeepers, and any other persons or corporations shall be civilly liable
for crimes committed in their establishments, in all cases where a violation of
municipal ordinances or some general or special police regulation shall have
been committed by them or their employees.
Innkeepers are also subsidiarily liable for the restitution of goods taken by
robbery or theft within their houses from guests lodging therein, or for the
payment of the value thereof, provided that such guests shall have notified in
advance the innkeeper himself, or the person representing him, of the deposit
of such goods within the inn; and shall furthermore have followed the
directions which such innkeeper or his representative may have given them
with respect to the care and vigilance over such goods. No liability shall attach
in case of robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons unless
committed by the innkeeper's employees.
Art. 103. Subsidiary civil liability of other persons. The subsidiary liability
established in the next preceding article shall also apply to employers,
teachers, persons, and corporations engaged in any kind of industry for
felonies committed by their servants, pupils, workmen, apprentices, or
employees in the discharge of their duties.

Chapter Two
WHAT CIVIL LIABILITY INCLUDES

Art. 104. What is included in civil liability. The civil liability established in
Articles 100, 101, 102, and 103 of this Code includes:
1. Restitution;
2. Reparation of the damage caused;
3. Indemnification for consequential damages.
Art. 105. Restitution; How made. The restitution of the thing itself must be
made whenever possible, with allowance for any deterioration, or diminution
of value as determined by the court.
The thing itself shall be restored, even though it be found in the possession of
a third person who has acquired it by lawful means, saving to the latter his
action against the proper person, who may be liable to him.
This provision is not applicable in cases in which the thing has been acquired
by the third person in the manner and under the requirements which, by law,
bar an action for its recovery.
Art. 106. Reparation; How made. The court shall determine the amount of
damage, taking into consideration the price of the thing, whenever possible,
and its special sentimental value to the injured party, and reparation shall be
made accordingly.
Art. 107. Indemnification; What is included. Indemnification for
consequential damages shall include not only those caused the injured party,
but also those suffered by his family or by a third person by reason of the
crime.
Art. 108. Obligation to make restoration, reparation for damages, or
indemnification for consequential damages and actions to demand the same;
Upon whom it devolves. The obligation to make restoration or reparation
for damages and indemnification for consequential damages devolves upon
the heirs of the person liable.
The action to demand restoration, reparation, and indemnification likewise
descends to the heirs of the person injured.
Art. 109. Share of each person civilly liable. If there are two or more persons
civilly liable for a felony, the courts shall determine the amount for which each
must respond.
Art. 110. Several and subsidiary liability of principals, accomplices and
accessories of a felony; Preference in payment. Notwithstanding the
provisions of the next preceding article, the principals, accomplices, and
accessories, each within their respective class, shall be liable severally (in
solidum) among themselves for their quotas, and subsidiaries for those of the
other persons liable.
The subsidiary liability shall be enforced, first against the property of the
principals; next, against that of the accomplices, and, lastly, against that of the
accessories.
Whenever the liability in solidum or the subsidiary liability has been
enforced, the person by whom payment has been made shall have a right of
action against the others for the amount of their respective shares.
Art. 111. Obligation to make restitution in certain cases. Any person who has
participated gratuitously in the proceeds of a felony shall be bound to make
restitution in an amount equivalent to the extent of such participation.

Chapter Three
EXTINCTION AND SURVIVAL OF CIVIL LIABILITY

Art. 112. Extinction of civil liability. Civil liability established in Articles 100,
101, 102, and 103 of this Code shall be extinguished in the same manner as
obligations, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Law.

Art. 113. Obligation to satisfy civil liability. Except in case of extinction of his
civil liability as provided in the next preceding article the offender shall
continue to be obliged to satisfy the civil liability resulting from the crime
committed by him, notwithstanding the fact that he has served his sentence
consisting of deprivation of liberty or other rights, or has not been required to
serve the same by reason of amnesty, pardon, commutation of sentence or any
other reason.


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