BAR Exams Frequently Asked Q&A Cases & Jurisprudence – Criminal Law – Audiobook Review Part 4 BAR FREQUENTLY ASKED IN CRIMINAL LAW PART 4Concepts and Jurisprudence #1. TREACHERY As a rule, a sudden attack by the assailant, whether frontally or from behind, is treachery if such mode of attack was coolly and deliberately adopted by […]
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BAR Exams Frequently Asked Q&A Cases & Jurisprudence – Criminal Law – Audiobook Review Part 3 BAR FREQUENTLY ASKED IN CRIMINAL LAW PART 3Concepts and Jurisprudence #1. CONSPIRACY When accused-appellant Pugay poured gasoline on the victim’s body and thereafter his co- accused Samson set the victim on fire, there is nothing in the records showing […]
Accuse-appellant must thus prove that he was completely deprived of reason when he killed his father in order to be exempt for parricide. There is nothing either in the report of Dr. Gerona or his testimony which indubitably show that accused-appellant was completely without reason when he killed his father because the latter wanted him […]
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Self-Defense
Self-defense is man’s inborn right. In a physical assault, retaliation becomes unlawful after the attack has ceased, because there would be no further harm to repel. But that is not the case when it is aimed at a person’s good name. Once the aspersion is cast its sting clings and the one thus defamed may […]
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Frustrated Felony
When the offender performs all the acts of execution which would produce the felony as a consequence but which, nevertheless, do not produce it by reason of causes independent of the will of the perpetrator. Where the offender treacherously inflicted a wound upon the victim which was sufficient to have caused death, but the victim […]
The Revised Penal Code of the PhilippinesBook 1 Articles 46 to 61 Title Three Penalties Chapter Four Application of Penalties This is an audiobook reviewer by Law School Buddy on Criminal Law Philippines made specially for law school students. This audiobook is helpful in study and review sessions, as well as for memory retention. This […]
BAR Exams Frequently Asked Questions Q&A – Criminal Law – Audiobook Review Part 2 BAR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSCRIMINAL LAWPART 2 Concepts QUESTION: What is the doctrine of implied conspiracy? (1998; 2003) ANSWER: The doctrine of implied conspiracy holds two or more persons participating in the commission of a crime collectively responsible and liable as co-conspirators although absent […]
BAR Exams Frequently Asked Questions Q&A – Criminal Law – Audiobook Review Part 1 See complete list of episodes here. Philippine Bar ExamsFrequently Asked QuestionsCriminal Law Part 1 (1) Distinguish motive from intent. (1996; 1999) ANSWER: Motive is the reason which impels one to commit an act for a definite result, while intent is the purpose to use […]
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Praeter Intentionem
When the Resulting Harm is Greater than Means Employed by the Offender “Praeter intentionem” is defined as having an injurious result that is greater than that intended. The Revised Penal Code describes it as no intention to commit so grave a wrong. In People vs. Ural, praeter intentionem is a mitigating circumstance “that the offender had no […]
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Aberratio Ictus
Can A Wrongful Act Done Differently From That Which is Intended Incur Criminal Liability? In “aberratio ictus” or mistake in the blow, a person directed the blow at an intended victim, but because of poor aim, that blow landed on somebody else. The intended victim as well as the actual victim are both at the […]