This document discusses Philippine case law on various articles related to criminal law. It addresses aggravating circumstances, principles, accomplices, prescription of crimes, conditional pardon, indemnities, and employer liability. Key points include that conspiracy is not always aggravating, a lookout can be an accomplice, civil indemnity amounts can increase for additional depravity in a crime, and an attorney cannot normally compromise a client's civil liability without special power of attorney.
This document discusses Philippine case law on various articles related to criminal law. It addresses aggravating circumstances, principles, accomplices, prescription of crimes, conditional pardon, indemnities, and employer liability. Key points include that conspiracy is not always aggravating, a lookout can be an accomplice, civil indemnity amounts can increase for additional depravity in a crime, and an attorney cannot normally compromise a client's civil liability without special power of attorney.
This document discusses Philippine case law on various articles related to criminal law. It addresses aggravating circumstances, principles, accomplices, prescription of crimes, conditional pardon, indemnities, and employer liability. Key points include that conspiracy is not always aggravating, a lookout can be an accomplice, civil indemnity amounts can increase for additional depravity in a crime, and an attorney cannot normally compromise a client's civil liability without special power of attorney.
This document discusses Philippine case law on various articles related to criminal law. It addresses aggravating circumstances, principles, accomplices, prescription of crimes, conditional pardon, indemnities, and employer liability. Key points include that conspiracy is not always aggravating, a lookout can be an accomplice, civil indemnity amounts can increase for additional depravity in a crime, and an attorney cannot normally compromise a client's civil liability without special power of attorney.
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ARTICLE 14 AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCE
People vs Gano, G..R. No. 134373, Feb. 28, 2001
No law provides that the excess rape or homicide should be aggravating circumstance. People vs Feran, Oct. 1992 Conspiracy is neither aggravating nor qualifying but is a manner of incurring collective criminal liability among every co-conspirators in an equal degree such that the act of one becomes the act of all. Rodrigues 19 Phil 150, Siojo 61 Phil. 307 Public authority covers not only persons in authority but also agents of persons in authority and other public officers. People vs Ursal, 121 SCRA 409 The circumstance of sex is not sustained solely by the fact that the victim was a woman. It must further appear that in the lawful taking of her life, there was some specific insult or disrespect shown to her womanhood. People vs Dacibar, G.R. No. 111286, Feb 2000 It is not necessary that the accused enters 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 outside the house. People vs Ong, Jan. 30 , 1975 Nighttime is absorbed in treachery if it is part of the treacherous means to insure execution of crime. People vs Manansala, G.R. No. 88752, July 3, 1992 Evident premeditation is not inherent in robbery with homicide. In such an offense, the permediattion must relate to the killing and not to the robbery. People vs Rebamontan, G.R. No. 125318, April 13, 1999 The essence of treachery and the unexpectedness of the attack upon the unsuspecting and unarmed victim who does not give the slightest provocation.
People vs Alacar, G.R. Nos. 64725-26, July 20,1992
When it is shown that the attack was not made with alevosia the number of the assailants and simultaneity of the attack upon a defenseless person may constitute abuse of force. People vs Landicho, G.R. No. 116600, July 3, 1996 Treachery may be appreciated even when the victim was warned of the danger to his persons, for what is decisive is that the execution of the attack was made it impossible for the victim to defend himself or retaliate. People vs Costelo, G.R. No. 134311, Oct. 13, 1999 The retaliation relevant in the appreciation of treachery must come from the victim, not from anyone else. People vs Binondo, G.R. No. 97227, Oct. 20, 1992 No greater outrage, insult or abuse can a person commit upon a corpse than to severe its head.
ARTICLE 17 PRINCIPALS
Doctrine of Implied Conspiracy
The voluntary and indispensable cooperation of the offender is a concurrence of the criminal act to be executed. Consequently, he is a co-conspirator by indispensable cooperation, although the common design or purpose was never bottled up by previous undertaking People vs Parungao, G.R. No. 125812, Nov. 28, 1996 Where the words uttered did not make any great dominance or influences on the offenders were already determined to commit the offending acts, the utterance will not make the utterer an inducer. Sotto G.R. No. 106083-84, March 29, 1996 The participation of the cooperator must be indispensible to the commission of the crime. If his participation is dispensable, that is, with or without his participation, the offense will be committed, the liability is that of an accomplice. People vs Tabuso, G.R. No. 113708, Oct. 26, 1999 Mere presence at the crime scene or sole relationship with the other accused does not make one a co-conspirator.
ARTICLE 18 ACCOMPLICES
People vs De Vera, G.R. No. 128966, Aug. 18, 1999
A lookout who was not part of the conspiracy but participated only after such decision was reached incurs criminal liability as an accomplice. People vs Lacao, SR. Conspiracy is not a requirement as the accomplice is not a principal, but supplies material or moral aid to the principal in an efficacious way.
ARTICLE 21-22
Nullum crimen nulla poene sine lege
No felony shall be punishable by any penalty not prescribed by law prior to its commission. Unless there is a law penalizing an act or omission, the offender cannot be penalized, no matter how reprehensible the act may be. Prospectivity Rule mandates that penal laws shall have only prospective application.
ARTICLE 81-85
People vs Ballabare, G.R. No. 108871, Nov. 19, 1996
An affidavit of desistance is merely an additional ground to buttress the accuseds defenses, not the sole consideration that can result in acquittal. Presidential Ad Hoc Committee on Behest Loans vs OMB, G.R.No. 135482, Aug. 14, 2001 The prescription shall be interrupted or suspended when the proceedings are instituted against the guilty person and shall begin to run again if the proceedings are dismissed for reasons not constituting jeopardy.
ARTICLE 95 CONDITIONAL PARDON
Tesoro vs Dir. Of Prisons, 68 Phil 154
The pardonee, having consented to place his liberty on conditional pardon upon the judgment of the power that has granted it, cannot invoke the aid of the courts, however erroneous the findings may be upon which his recommitment was ordered. Torres A final judicial pronouncement as to the guilt of a pardonee is not a requirement for the President to determine whether or not there has been a breach of the terms of conditional pardon.
ARTICLE 100-113
People vs Teehankee, Jr. G.R.Nos.111206-08, Oct. 6, 1995
The indemnities for loss of earning capacity and for moral damages are recoverable separately from and in addition to the fixed sum corresponding to the indemnities from the sole death. People vs Victor, G.R. No. 127903, July 9, 1998 Indictments for rape continue unabated and the legislative response has been in the form of higher penalties. People vs Malapo, G.R. No. 123115, Aug. 25, 1988 The civil indemnity which, by reason of the added repugnance of the bestial act being committed on a pregnant woman in the presence of her husband, is increased for each rape committed. People vs Carpo, G.R. No. 132676, April 4, 2001 Without a special power of attorney, the counsel for the accused cannot bind nor compromise his clients civil liability. People vs Luchico, 49 Phil. 689; People vs Namayan, G.R. No. 106539, July 18, 1995 Rape carries with it, among others, the obligations to acknowledge the offspring if the character of its origin does not prevent it and to support the same. Fernando vs Ocampo, 37 SCRA 311 The employers liability for the criminal negligence of his employee is subsidiary in nature and is limited only to civil indemnity.
Sec. 44. Indorsement in Representative Capacity. - Where Any Person Is Under Obligation To Indorse in A Representative Capacity, He May Indorse in Such Terms As To Negative Personal Liability
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