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Destruction of Life

This document outlines crimes against persons under Philippine law. It defines the crimes of parricide, murder, and homicide and their corresponding penalties. Parricide involves killing ascendants or descendants and is punishable by life imprisonment or death. Murder involves killing with attendant circumstances like treachery or for price and is punishable by life imprisonment to death. Homicide is killing without attendant circumstances and is punishable by jail time. It also describes reduced penalties for attempted or frustrated acts.

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Destruction of Life

This document outlines crimes against persons under Philippine law. It defines the crimes of parricide, murder, and homicide and their corresponding penalties. Parricide involves killing ascendants or descendants and is punishable by life imprisonment or death. Murder involves killing with attendant circumstances like treachery or for price and is punishable by life imprisonment to death. Homicide is killing without attendant circumstances and is punishable by jail time. It also describes reduced penalties for attempted or frustrated acts.

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Title Eight

CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS


Chapter One
DESTRUCTION OF LIFE
Section One. — Parricide, murder, homicide

Art. 246. Parricide. — Any person who shall kill his father, mother, or child,
whether legitimate or illegitimate, or any of his ascendants, or descendants,
or his spouse, shall be guilty of parricide and shall be punished by the
penalty of reclusion perpetua to death.

Art. 247. Death or physical injuries inflicted under exceptional


circumstances. — Any legally married person who having surprised
his spouse in the act of committing sexual intercourse with another
person, shall kill any of them or both of them in the act or
immediately thereafter, or shall inflict upon them any serious
physical injury, shall suffer the penalty of destierro. chanrobles virtual law library

If he shall inflict upon them physical injuries of any other kind, he


shall be exempt from punishment. chanrobles virtual law library

These rules shall be applicable, under the same circumstances, to


parents with respect to their daughters under eighteen years of age,
and their seducer, while the daughters are living with their parents.
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Any person who shall promote or facilitate the prostitution of his


wife or daughter, or shall otherwise have consented to the infidelity
of the other spouse shall not be entitled to the benefits of this
article. chanrobles virtual law library

Art. 248. Murder. — Any person who, not falling within the
provisions of Article 246 shall kill another, shall be guilty of murder
and shall be punished by reclusion temporal in its maximum period
to death, if committed with any of the following attendant
circumstances:

1. With treachery, taking advantage of superior strength, with


the aid of armed men, or employing means to weaken the
defense or of means or persons to insure or afford impunity. chanrobles virtual law library

2. In consideration of a price, reward, or promise. chanrobles virtual law library

3. By means of inundation, fire, poison, explosion, shipwreck,


stranding of a vessel, derailment or assault upon a street car or
locomotive, fall of an airship, by means of motor vehicles, or
with the use of any other means involving great waste and
ruin.chanrobles virtual law library

4. On occasion of any of the calamities enumerated in the


preceding paragraph, or of an earthquake, eruption of a
volcano, destructive cyclone, epidemic or other public
calamity. chanrobles virtual law library

5. With evident premeditation. chanrobles virtual law library

6. With cruelty, by deliberately and inhumanly augmenting the


suffering of the victim, or outraging or scoffing at his person or
corpse. chanrobles virtual law library

Art. 249. Homicide. — Any person who, not falling within the provisions of
Article 246, shall kill another without the attendance of any of the
circumstances enumerated in the next preceding article, shall be deemed
guilty of homicide and be punished by reclusion temporal.

Art. 250. Penalty for frustrated parricide, murder or homicide. — The


courts, in view of the facts of the case, may impose upon the person
guilty of the frustrated crime of parricide, murder or homicide,
defined and penalized in the preceding articles, a penalty lower by
one degree than that which should be imposed under the provision
of Article 50. chanrobles virtual law library

The courts, considering the facts of the case, may likewise reduce by
one degree the penalty which under Article 51 should be imposed for
an attempt to commit any of such crimes. chanrobles virtual law library

Art. 251. Death caused in a tumultuous affray. — When, while


several persons, not composing groups organized for the common
purpose of assaulting and attacking each other reciprocally, quarrel
and assault each other in a confused and tumultuous manner, and in
the course of the affray someone is killed, and it cannot be
ascertained who actually killed the deceased, but the person or
persons who inflicted serious physical injuries can be identified,
such person or persons shall be punished by prision mayor. chanrobles virtual law library

If it cannot be determined who inflicted the serious physical injuries


on the deceased, the penalty of prision correccional in its medium
and maximum periods shall be imposed upon all those who shall
have used violence upon the person of the victim. chanrobles virtual law library
Art. 252. Physical injuries inflicted in a tumultuous affray. — When in
a tumultuous affray as referred to in the preceding article, only
serious physical injuries are inflicted upon the participants thereof
and the person responsible thereof cannot be identified, all those
who appear to have used violence upon the person of the offended
party shall suffer the penalty next lower in degree than that
provided for the physical injuries so inflicted.
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When the physical injuries inflicted are of a less serious nature and
the person responsible therefor cannot be identified, all those who
appear to have used any violence upon the person of the offended
party shall be punished by arresto mayor from five to fifteen days. chanrobles virtual law library

Art. 253. Giving assistance to suicide. — Any person who shall assist
another to commit suicide shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor;
if such person leads his assistance to another to the extent of doing
the killing himself, he shall suffer the penalty of reclusion temporal.
However, if the suicide is not consummated, the penalty of arresto
mayor in its medium and maximum periods, shall be imposed. chanrobles virtual law library

Art. 254. Discharge of firearms. — Any person who shall shoot at


another with any firearm shall suffer the penalty of prision
correccional in its minimum and medium periods, unless the facts of
the case are such that the act can be held to constitute frustrated or
attempted parricide, murder, homicide or any other crime for which
a higher penalty is prescribed by any of the articles of this Code. chanrobles virtual law library

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