Revised Penal Code

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    Infanticide, A255 Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept and legal basis Article 255. Infanticide. – The penalty provided for parricide in Article 246 and for murder in Article 248 shall be imposed upon any person who shall kill any child less than three days of age. If the crime penalized in this article be committed by the mother of the child…

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    Discharge of firearms, A254 Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept and legal basis Article 254. Discharge of firearms. – Any person who shall shoot at another with any firearm shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods, unless the facts of the case are such that the act can be held to constitute frustrated or attempted parricide, murder,…

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    Giving assistance to suicide, A253 Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept and legal basis Article 253. Giving assistance to suicide. – Any person who shall assist another to commit suicide shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor; if such person leads his assistance to another to the extent of doing the killing himself, he shall suffer the penalty of reclusion temporal. However, if the…

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    Homicide, A249 Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept and legal basis Article 249. Homicide. – Any person who, not falling within the provisions of Article 246, shall kill another without the attendance of any of the circumstances enumerated in the next preceding article, shall be deemed guilty of homicide and be punished by reclusion temporal. (Act 3815, Revised Penal Code) 2….

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    Murder, A248 Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept and legal basis Article 248. Murder. – Any person who, not falling within the provisions of Article 246 shall kill another, shall be guilty of murder and shall be punished by reclusion temporal in its maximum period to death, if committed with any of the following attendant circumstances: 1. With treachery, taking advantage…

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    Parricide, A246 Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept and legal basis “Parricide” – refers to offense/crime of killing another who may be a spouse or a direct blood ascendant or descendant, as penalized under Article 246 of the Revised Penal Code. Parricide is the most terrible and unnatural of crimes. (People v. Tibon, G.R. No. 188320 29 June 2010) Violence between…

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    Abuses against chastity, Revised Penal Code

    1. Concept Article 245. The penalties of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods and temporary special disqualification shall be imposed: 1) Upon any public officer who shall solicit or make immoral or indecent advances to a woman interested in matters pending before such officer for decision, or with respect to which he is…