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Act No. 3815, the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines (1930). The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines. Luis B. Reyes, The Revised Penal Code: Criminal Law 20 (1998, 14th ed.). Antonio L. Gregorio, Fundamentals of Criminal Law Review 50-51 (1997).
The Revised Penal Code supplanted the 1870 Spanish Código Penal, which was in force in the Philippines (then an overseas province of the Spanish Empire up to 1898) from 1886 to 1930, after an allegedly uneven implementation in 1877.
Revised Penal Code Hernandez , 99 Phil. Rep 515 (1956) , was a case decided by the Philippine Supreme Court which held that the crime of rebellion under the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines is charged as a single offense, and that it cannot be made into a complex crime. [ 1 ]
Jose Benedicto Luis Luna Reyes (August 19, 1902 – December 27, 1994) was a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1954 to 1972. After his retirement, Reyes became the first president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
For example, while the possession of narcotics had been penalized under the 1930s Revised Penal Code, the wider attention drawn to illegal drugs in the 1960s and the 1970s led to new legislation increasing the penalties for possession and trafficking of narcotics. Instead of enacting amendments to the Revised Penal Code, Congress chose instead ...
Under article 266-B of the Revised Penal Code, as amended by the Anti-Rape Law of 1997, [53] the court sentenced Smith to reclusion perpetua and ordered his temporary detention at the Makati city jail. [54] The custody issue was brought up by the US embassy in Manila and the Philippine Justice and Foreign Affairs departments.
(The Center Square) — A New York Republican county executive is being sued over a move to deputize citizens for law-enforcement efforts, with Democrats arguing that it amounts to an "illegal ...
Amending the Revised Penal Code or Act 3815: Decriminalizing Vagrancy 2012-04-10: 10159: Amending the Revised Penal Code or Act 3815 2012-04-10: 10160: Converting a Municipality into a Component City 2012-04-10: 10161: Converting a Municipality into a Component City 2012-04-17: 10162: Creating additional Branches of the Regional Trial Court ...