Crimes Against Popular Representation
Crimes Against Popular Representation
Crimes Against Popular Representation
ELEMENTS OF ACTS TENDING TO PREVENT THE .MEETING OF THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
AND SIMILAR BODIES:
1. Any meeting attended by armed persons for the purpose of committing any of the crimes
punishable under the RPC.
ELEMENTS:
A. There is a meeting, a gathering or group of persons, whether in fixed place or moving.
B. The meeting is attended by armed persons.
C. The purpose of the meeting is to commit any of the crimes punishable under the RPC.
2. Any meeting in which the audience, whether armed or not, is incited to the commission of the
crime of treason, rebellion or insurrection, sedition, or assault upon a person in authority or his
agents.
ELEMENTS:
First form: Without public uprising, by employing force or intimidation for attainment of any of the
purposes enumerated in defining the crimes of rebellion and sedition.
ELEMENTS:
2. That the aim of the offender is to attain any of the purposes of the crime of rebellion or any of
the objects in the crime of sedition.
3. That there is no public uprising.
Second form: Without public uprising, by attacking, by employing force, or by seriously intimidating or
seriously resisting any person in authority or any of his agents, while engaged in the performance of
official duties, or on the occasion of such performance.
ELEMENTS:
1. Person in authority or his agent is the victim of the forms of direct assault.
2. A person comes to the aid of such authority or his agent.
3. Offender makes use of force or intimidation upon such person coming to the aid of the authority
or his agent.
1. Person in authority or his agent is engaged in the performance of official duty or gives a lawful
order to the offender.
2. Offender resists or seriously disobeys such person in authority or his agent.
3. Act of the offender is not included in the provisions of Arts. 148, 149 and 150.
1. An agent of a person in authority is engaged in the performance of official duty or gives a lawful
order to the offender.
2. Offender disobeys such agent of a person in authority.
3. Such disobedience is not a serious nature.