Art 171-172PRC
Art 171-172PRC
Art 171-172PRC
Held: Even if the signatures of Irene Sanchez and Feliciano Isidro had not been imitated
on t h e money orders, the fact that they were signed thereon in order to m a k e it appear
that they intervened in the execution thereof in the s e n s e that they received the
corresponding amounts, when they did not in fact intervene or receive the amount in
question, is sufficient to constitute the crime of falsification of public documents.
When committed by private individual, Art. 172 should be applied. The act of
falsely impersonating the owner of a piece of land as vendor in the forged deed of
sale would constitute an act of falsification under paragraph 2 of Art. 171 (Emas vs.
De Zuzuarregui, et al., 53 Phil. 197), and may be punishable under Art. 172 of the
Code, the offender being a private individual. The placing by the accused of their
thumbmarks in the list of voters opposite the n a m e s of the electors who have not
actually voted, thereby making it appear that those electors cast their votes when they did
not in fact vote, is falsification under paragraph 2 of Art. 171, and the offenders who are
private individuals are liable under Art. 172. (People vs. Asa, et al., 3 C.A., Rep. 1216)