CRIMINAL LAW EXPECTED QUESTIONS
IDENTIFICATIONS
1.that branch or division of law which defines crimes, treats of their nature and provides for
their punishment.
2.Penal laws of the Philippines are enforceable only within its territory.
3.it is binding on all persons who live or sojourn in the Philippine territory .
4.are acts or omissions punishable by the RPC.
5.the act is performed with deliberate intent or malice.
6.the class of crimes punishable by SPECIAL LAWS and where criminal intent is not, as a
rule, necessary, it being sufficient that the offender has the intent to perpetrate the act
prohibited by the special law.
7. there is no crime where there is no law punishing it.
8. Good faith or lack of criminal intent is a valid defense; unless the crime is the result of culpa.
9.is a misapprehension of fact on the part of the person causing injury to another.
Such person is not criminally liable as he acted without criminal intent.
10. that cause, which, in the natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any
efficient intervening cause, produces the injury without which the result would not have
occurred.
11. lack of intent to commit so grave a wrong.
12.is an absolutory cause which negates criminal liability because the law encourages a
person to desist from committing a crime
13. Some physical activity or deed, indicating intention to commit a particular crime,
more than a mere planning or preparation, which if carried to its complete termination
following its natural course, without being frustrated by external obstacles, nor by
voluntary desistance of the perpetrator will logically ripen into a concrete offense.
14.are punishable only when they have been consummated EXCEPT: If committed against
persons or property, punishable even if not consummated.
15.One where the purpose of the offender in performing an act is not certain. The
accused maybe convicted for a felony defined by the acts performed by him up to the
time of desistance.
16. ordinarily not punished except when considered by law as independent crimes
17.are those infractions of law for the commission of which the penalty of arresto menor
or a fine not exceeding 200 pesos, or both, is provided.
18.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 the Code.
19.are those which the law punishes with penalties which in their maximum period are
correctional, in accordance with Art. 25 of the Code.
20. are those where the act of a person is said to be in accordance with law, so that such
person is deemed not to have transgressed the law and is free from both criminal and civil
liability. There is no civil liability, except in par. 4 of Art. 11, where the civil liability is
borne by the persons benefited by the
Act.1accordance with law, so that such person is deemed not to have transgressed the law
and is free from both criminal and civil liability. There is no civil liability, except in par. 4 of
Art. 11, where the civil liability is borne by the persons benefited by the act.
21. he means employed depends upon the nature and quality of the (1) weapon used
by the aggressor, and (2) his physical condition, character, size and other circumstances,
(3) and those of the person defending himself, (4) and also the place and occasion
of the assault.
22. is equivalent to an actual physical assault or, at least
23.refers to a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms
found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative abuse.
24. refers to any act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or her child resulting to
physical and psychological or emotional distress.
25.When all elements elements for its execution are presents.
RPC EXPECTED ENUMERATIONS
3 CHARACTERISTICS OF CRIMINAL LAW
3 EXCEPTION TO GENERALITY PRINCIPLE
PEOPLE WHO ARE EXEMPTED IN GENERALITY PRINCIPLE (TWO)
5 EXCEPTION TO TERRITORIAL PRINCIPLE
3 THEORIES IN CRIMINAL LAW
3 REQUISITS OF DOLO OR MALICE
3 REQUISITES OF CULPA
5 CRIMES DO NOT ADMIT OF FRUSTRATED STAGE?
ANSWERS KEY
1. CRIMINAL LAW
2. TERRITORIAL
3. GENERAL
4. FELONIES
5. INTENTIONAL FELENOIES
6. MALA PROHIBITA
7. NULLUM CRIMEN NULLA POENA SINE LEGE
8. MALA INSE
9. MISTAKE OF FACT
10. PROXIMATE CAUSE
11. PRAETER INTENTIONEM
12. DESISTANCE
13. OVERT ACTS
14. LIGHT FELONIES
15. INDETERMINATE OFFENSE
16. PREPATORY ACTS
17. LIGHT FELONIES
18. GRAVE FELONIES
19. LESS GRAVE FELONIES
20. JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES
21. TEST OF REASONABLENESS
22. UNLAWFUL AGGRESSIONS
23. BATTERED WOMAN SYNDROME
24. BATTERY
25. CONSSUMMATED FELONIES
