This document outlines crimes against persons under Philippine law, including penalties for homicide, murder, parricide, infanticide, abortion, and physical injuries of varying severity. For murder, the death penalty or life imprisonment is prescribed, with higher penalties if committed through treachery or for financial gain. Lesser crimes like abortion, discharging firearms at another, or inflicting physical injuries are punishable by prison terms ranging from weeks to years depending on the circumstances and severity of the offense.
This document outlines crimes against persons under Philippine law, including penalties for homicide, murder, parricide, infanticide, abortion, and physical injuries of varying severity. For murder, the death penalty or life imprisonment is prescribed, with higher penalties if committed through treachery or for financial gain. Lesser crimes like abortion, discharging firearms at another, or inflicting physical injuries are punishable by prison terms ranging from weeks to years depending on the circumstances and severity of the offense.
This document outlines crimes against persons under Philippine law, including penalties for homicide, murder, parricide, infanticide, abortion, and physical injuries of varying severity. For murder, the death penalty or life imprisonment is prescribed, with higher penalties if committed through treachery or for financial gain. Lesser crimes like abortion, discharging firearms at another, or inflicting physical injuries are punishable by prison terms ranging from weeks to years depending on the circumstances and severity of the offense.
(8) CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS (Chapter One) DESTRUCTION OF LIFE penalty of reclusion temporal. However, if the suicide is not consummated, the penalty 3.
The penalty of prision
Section One. — Parricide, murder, homicide of arresto mayor in its medium and maximum periods, shall be imposed. consequence of the physi Art. 246. Parricide. — Any person who shall kill his father, mother, or child, whether Art. 254. Discharge of firearms. — Any person who shall shoot at another with any deformed, or shall have lo legitimate or illegitimate, or any of his ascendants, or descendants, or his spouse, shall firearm shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and medium thereof, or shall have been be guilty of parricide and shall be punished by the penalty of reclusion perpetua to periods, unless the facts of the case are such that the act can be held to constitute he as habitually engaged fo death. frustrated or attempted parricide, murder, homicide or any other crime for which a 4. The penalty of arresto Art. 247. Death or physical injuries inflicted under exceptional circumstances. — Any higher penalty is prescribed by any of the articles of this Code. minimum period, if the p legally married person who having surprised his spouse in the act of committing sexual Section Two. — Infanticide and abortion. incapacity for labor of the intercourse with another person, shall kill any of them or both of them in the act or Art. 255. Infanticide. — The penalty provided for parricide in Article 246 and for murder have been committed aga immediately thereafter, or shall inflict upon them any serious physical injury, shall suffer in Article 248 shall be imposed upon any person who shall kill any child less than three attendance of any of the c the penalty of destierro. If he shall inflict upon them physical injuries of any other kind, days of age. If the crime penalized in this article be committed by the mother of the subdivision number 1 of t he shall be exempt from punishment. These rules shall be applicable, under the same child for the purpose of concealing her dishonor, she shall suffer the penalty of prision medium and maximum per circumstances, to parents with respect to their daughters under eighteen years of age, correccional in its medium and maximum periods, and if said crime be committed for correccional in its maximu and their seducer, while the daughters are living with their parents. Any person who the same purpose by the maternal grandparents or either of them, the penalty shall be covered by subdivision num shall promote or facilitate the prostitution of his wife or daughter, or shall otherwise prision mayor. periods; and the case cove have consented to the infidelity of the other spouse shall not be entitled to the benefits Art. 256. Intentional abortion. — Any person who shall intentionally cause an abortion minimum and medium peri of this article. shall suffer: applicable to a parent wh Art. 248. Murder. — Any person who, not falling within the provisions of Article 246 1. The penalty of reclusion temporal, if he shall use any violence upon the person of chastisement. shall kill another, shall be guilty of murder and shall be punished by reclusion temporal the pregnant woman. Art. 264. Administering in its maximum period to death, if committed with any of the following attendant 2. The penalty of prision mayor if, without using violence, he shall act without the established by the next pre circumstances: consent of the woman. any person who, without in 1. With treachery, taking advantage of superior strength, with the aid of armed men, or 3. The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods, if the injury, by knowingly admini employing means to weaken the defense or of means or persons to insure or afford woman shall have consented. taking advantage of his wea impunity. Art. 257. Unintentional abortion. — The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum Art. 265. Less serious phy 2. In consideration of a price, reward, or promise. and medium period shall be imposed upon any person who shall cause an abortion by physical injuries not describ 3. By means of inundation, fire, poison, explosion, shipwreck, stranding of a vessel, violence, but unintentionally. offended party for labor for derailment or assault upon a street car or locomotive, fall of an airship, by means of Art. 258. Abortion practiced by the woman herself of by her parents. — The penalty of same period, shall be guilty motor vehicles, or with the use of any other means involving great waste and ruin. prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods shall be imposed upon a of arresto mayor. Wheneve 4. On occasion of any of the calamities enumerated in the preceding paragraph, or of woman who shall practice abortion upon herself or shall consent that any other person the manifest intent to kill o an earthquake, eruption of a volcano, destructive cyclone, epidemic or other public should do so. Any woman who shall commit this offense to conceal her dishonor, shall ignominy to the offense in a calamity. suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods. If this 500 pesos shall be impo 5. With evident premeditation. crime be committed by the parents of the pregnant woman or either of them, and they offender's parents, ascend 6. With cruelty, by deliberately and inhumanly augmenting the suffering of the victim, or act with the consent of said woman for the purpose of concealing her dishonor, the persons in authority, shall outraging or scoffing at his person or corpse. offenders shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum medium periods, provided Art. 249. Homicide. — Any person who, not falling within the provisions of Article 246, periods. constitute the crime of assa shall kill another without the attendance of any of the circumstances enumerated in the Art. 259. Abortion practiced by a physician or midwife and dispensing of abortives. — Art. 266. Slight physical in next preceding article, shall be deemed guilty of homicide and be punished by The penalties provided in Article 256 shall be imposed in its maximum period, injuries shall be punished: reclusion temporal. respectively, upon any physician or midwife who, taking advantage of their scientific 1. By arresto menor whe Art. 250. Penalty for frustrated parricide, murder or homicide. — The courts, in view of knowledge or skill, shall cause an abortion or assist in causing the same. Any incapacitate the offended p the facts of the case, may impose upon the person guilty of the frustrated crime of pharmacist who, without the proper prescription from a physician, shall dispense any attendance during the same parricide, murder or homicide, defined and penalized in the preceding articles, a abortive shall suffer arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding 1,000 pesos. 2. By arresto menor or a f penalty lower by one degree than that which should be imposed under the provision of Section Three. — Duel has caused physical injurie Article 50. The courts, considering the facts of the case, may likewise reduce by one Art. 260. Responsibility of participants in a duel. — The penalty of reclusion temporal his habitual work nor requir degree the penalty which under Article 51 should be imposed for an attempt to commit shall be imposed upon any person who shall kill his adversary in a duel. If he shall 3. By arresto menor in its any of such crimes. inflict upon the latter physical injuries only, he shall suffer the penalty provided therefor, offender shall illtreat anoth Art. 251. Death caused in a tumultuous affray. — When, while several persons, not according to their nature. In any other case, the combatants shall suffer the penalty of (9) CRIMES AG composing groups organized for the common purpose of assaulting and attacking each arresto mayor, although no physical injuries have been inflicted. The seconds shall in Chap other reciprocally, quarrel and assault each other in a confused and tumultuous all events be punished as accomplices. Art. 267. Kidnapping and s manner, and in the course of the affray someone is killed, and it cannot be ascertained Art. 261. Challenging to a duel. — The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum kidnap or detain another, o who actually killed the deceased, but the person or persons who inflicted serious period shall be imposed upon any person who shall challenge another, or incite the penalty of reclusion per physical injuries can be identified, such person or persons shall be punished by prision another to give or accept a challenge to a duel, or shall scoff at or decry another 1. If the kidnapping or deten mayor. If it cannot be determined who inflicted the serious physical injuries on the publicly for having refused to accept a challenge to fight a duel. 2. If it shall have been comm deceased, the penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods shall Chapter Two PHYSICAL INJURIES 3. If any serious physical i be imposed upon all those who shall have used violence upon the person of the victim. Art. 262. Mutilation. — The penalty of reclusion temporal to reclusion perpetua shall be or detained; or if threats to k Art. 252. Physical injuries inflicted in a tumultuous affray. — When in a tumultuous imposed upon any person who shall intentionally mutilate another by depriving him, 4. If the person kidnapped affray as referred to in the preceding article, only serious physical injuries are inflicted either totally or partially, or some essential organ of reproduction. Any other intentional penalty shall be death w upon the participants thereof and the person responsible thereof cannot be identified, mutilation shall be punished by prision mayor in its medium and maximum periods. purpose of extorting ransom all those who appear to have used violence upon the person of the offended party shall Art. 263. Serious physical injuries. — Any person who shall wound, beat, or assault circumstances abovementi suffer the penalty next lower in degree than that provided for the physical injuries so another, shall be guilty of the crime of serious physical injuries and shall suffer: Art. 268. Slight illegal deten inflicted. When the physical injuries inflicted are of a less serious nature and the person 1. The penalty of prision mayor, if in consequence of the physical injuries inflicted, the upon any private individu responsible therefor cannot be identified, all those who appear to have used any injured person shall become insane, imbecile, impotent, or blind; preceding article without th violence upon the person of the offended party shall be punished by arresto mayor 2. The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods, if in The same penalty shall b from five to fifteen days. consequence of the physical injuries inflicted, the person injured shall have lost the use perpetration of the crime. Art. 253. Giving assistance to suicide. — Any person who shall assist another to of speech or the power to hear or to smell, or shall have lost an eye, a hand, a foot, an kidnapped or detained wit commit suicide shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor; if such person leads his arm, or a leg or shall have lost the use of any such member, or shall have become without having attained th assistance to another to the extent of doing the killing himself, he shall suffer the incapacitated for the work in which he was therefor habitually engaged; or more persons, the penalty shall be reclusion perpetua to death (As amended by PD Art. 300. Robbery in an uninhabited place and by a band. — The robbery mentioned in to prision mayor in its minim No. 767). the next preceding article, if committed in an uninhabited place and by a band, shall be any of the acts provided 3. The penalty of reclusion temporal, when by reason or on occasion of the robbery, punished by the maximum period of the penalty provided therefor. contrary is proven. any of the physical injuries penalized in subdivision 2 of the article mentioned in the Art. 301. What is an inhabited house, public building or building dedicated to religious next preceding paragraph, shall have been inflicted. worship and their dependencies. — Inhabited house means any shelter, ship or vessel Art. 308. Who are liable fo 4. The penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period to reclusion temporal in its constituting the dwelling of one or more persons, even though the inhabitants thereof to gain but without violenc medium period, if the violence or intimidation employed in the commission of the shall temporarily be absent therefrom when the robbery is committed. All interior shall take personal proper robbery shall have been carried to a degree clearly unnecessary for the commission of courts, corrals, waterhouses, granaries, barns, coachhouses, stables or other committed by: the crime, or when the course of its execution, the offender shall have inflicted upon departments or inclosed places contiguous to the building or edifice, having an interior 1. Any person who, having any person not responsible for its commission any of the physical injuries covered by entrance connected therewith, and which form part of the whole, shall be deemed authorities or to its owner; subdivisions 3 and 4 of said Article 23. dependencies of an inhabited house, public building or building dedicated to religious 2. Any person who, after 5. The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period to prision mayor in its worship. Orchards and other lands used for cultivation or production are not included in remove or make use of the medium period in other cases. (As amended by R. A. 18). the terms of the next preceding paragraph, even if closed, contiguous to the building 3. Any person who shall en Art. 295. Robbery with physical injuries, committed in an uninhabited place and by a and having direct connection therewith. The term "public building" includes every or which belongs to anoth band, or with the use of firearm on a street, road or alley. — If the offenses mentioned building owned by the Government or belonging to a private person not included used upon the same or shall gath in subdivisions three, four, and five of the next preceding article shall have been or rented by the Government, although temporarily unoccupied by the same. Art. 309. Penalties. — Any committed in an uninhabited place or by a band, or by attacking a moving train, street Art. 302. Robbery is an uninhabited place or in a private building. — Any robbery 1. The penalty of prision m car, motor vehicle or airship, or by entering the passengers compartments in a train or, committed in an uninhabited place or in a building other than those mentioned in the thing stolen is more than 1 in any manner, taking the passengers thereof by surprise in the respective first paragraph of Article 299, if the value of the property taken exceeds 250 pesos, value of the thing stolen ex conveyances, or on a street, road, highway, or alley, and the intimidation is made with shall be punished by prision correccional if any of the following circumstances is period of the one prescrib the use of a firearm, the offender shall be punished by the maximum period of the present: thousand pesos, but the to proper penalties. In the same cases, the penalty next higher in degree shall be 1. If the entrance has been effected through any opening not intended for entrance or twenty years. In such cases imposed upon the leader of the band. egress. be imposed and for the pu Art. 296. Definition of a band and penalty incurred by the members thereof. — When 2. If any wall, roof, flour or outside door or window has been broken. be termed prision mayor or more than three armed malefactors take part in the commission of a robbery, it shall be 3. If the entrance has been effected through the use of false keys, picklocks or other 2. The penalty of prision c deemed to have been committed by a band. When any of the arms used in the similar tools. of the thing stolen is more t commission of the offense be an unlicensed firearm, the penalty to be imposed upon 4. If any dorm, wardrobe, chest or by sealed or closed furniture or receptacle has been 3. The penalty of prision c all the malefactors shall be the maximum of the corresponding penalty provided by law, broken. of the property stolen is mo without prejudice of the criminal liability for illegal possession of such unlicensed 5. If any closed or sealed receptacle, as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, has 4. Arresto mayor in its med firearms. Any member of a band who is present at the commission of a robbery by the been removed even if the same to broken open elsewhere. When the value of the the value of the property sto band, shall be punished as principal of any of the assaults committed by the band, property takes does not exceed 250 pesos, the penalty next lower in degree shall be 5. Arresto mayor to its full unless it be shown that he attempted to prevent the same. imposed. In the cases specified in Articles 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, and 302 of this pesos. Art. 297. Attempted and frustrated robbery committed under certain circumstances. — Code, when the property taken is mail matter or large cattle, the offender shall suffer 6. Arresto mayor in its min When by reason or on occasion of an attempted or frustrated robbery a homicide is the penalties next higher in degree than those provided in said articles. pesos. committed, the person guilty of such offenses shall be punished by reclusion temporal Art. 303. Robbery of cereals, fruits, or firewood in an uninhabited place or private 7. Arresto menor or a fine in its maximum period to reclusion perpetua, unless the homicide committed shall building. — In the cases enumerated in Articles 299 and 302, when the robbery circumstances enumerated deserve a higher penalty under the provisions of this Code. consists in the taking of cereals, fruits, or firewood, the culprit shall suffer the penalty of the thing stolen does no Art. 298. Execution of deeds by means of violence or intimidation. — Any person who, next lower in degree than that prescribed in said articles. provision of any of the five p with intent to defraud another, by means of violence or intimidation, shall compel him to Art. 304. Possession of picklocks or similar tools. — Any person who shall without 8. Arresto menor in its mi sign, execute or deliver any public instrument or documents, shall be held guilty of lawful cause have in his possession picklocks or similar tools especially adopted to the value of the thing stolen is robbery and punished by the penalties respectively prescribed in this Chapter. commission of the crime of robbery, shall be punished by arresto mayor in its maximum the impulse of hunger, pov Section Two. — Robbery by the use of force upon things period to prision correccional in its minimum period. The same penalty shall be himself or his family. Art. 299. Robbery in an inhabited house or public building or edifice devoted to imposed upon any person who shall make such tools. If the offender be a locksmith, he Art. 310. Qualified theft. — worship. — Any armed person who shall commit robbery in an inhabited house or shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods. Art. higher by two degrees than public building or edifice devoted to religious worship, shall be punished by reclusion 305. False keys. — The term "false keys" shall be deemed to include: committed by a domestic s temporal, if the value of the property taken shall exceed 250 pesos, and if: 1. The tools mentioned in the next preceding articles. stolen is motor vehicle, ma (a) The malefactors shall enter the house or building in which the robbery was 2. Genuine keys stolen from the owner. the premises of the plantat committed, by any of the following means: 3. Any keys other than those intended by the owner for use in the lock forcibly opened taken on the occasion of 1. Through a opening not intended for entrance or egress. by the offender. calamity, vehicular acciden 2. By breaking any wall, roof, or floor or breaking any door or window. Chapter Two BRIGANDAGE Blg. 71. May 1, 1980). 3. By using false keys, picklocks or similar tools. Art. 306. Who are brigands; Penalty. — When more than three armed persons form a Art. 311. Theft of the prope 4. By using any fictitious name or pretending the exercise of public authority. Or if — band of robbers for the purpose of committing robbery in the highway, or kidnapping property stolen be any pro (b) The robbery be committed under any of the following circumstances: persons for the purpose of extortion or to obtain ransom or for any other purpose to be penalty shall be arresto ma 1. By the breaking of doors, wardrobes, chests, or any other kind of locked or sealed attained by means of force and violence, they shall be deemed highway robbers or a higher penalty should be furniture or receptacle; brigands. Persons found guilty of this offense shall be punished by prision mayor in its the offender shall be punish 2. By taking such furniture or objects to be broken or forced open outside the place of medium period to reclusion temporal in its minimum period if the act or acts committed the robbery. When the offenders do not carry arms, and the value of the property taken by them are not punishable by higher penalties, in which case, they shall suffer such Art. 312. Occupation of re exceeds 250 pesos, the penalty next lower in degree shall be imposed. The same rule high penalties. If any of the arms carried by any of said persons be an unlicensed person who, by means o shall be applied when the offenders are armed, but the value of the property taken firearms, it shall be presumed that said persons are highway robbers or brigands, and possession of any real pro does not exceed 250 pesos. When said offenders do not carry arms and the value of in case of convictions the penalty shall be imposed in the maximum period. another, in addition to the the property taken does not exceed 250 pesos, they shall suffer the penalty prescribed Art. 307. Aiding and abetting a band of brigands. — Any person knowingly and in any shall be punished by a fine in the two next preceding paragraphs, in its minimum period. If the robbery be manner aiding, abetting or protecting a band of brigands as described in the next obtained, but not less than committed in one of the dependencies of an inhabited house, public building, or preceding article, or giving them information of the movements of the police or other fine of from 200 to 500 peso building dedicated to religious worship, the penalties next lower in degree than those peace officers of the Government (or of the forces of the United States Army), when Art. 313. Altering boundarie prescribed in this article shall be imposed. the latter are acting in aid of the Government, or acquiring or receiving the property marks or monuments of to taken by such brigands shall be punished by prision correccional in its medium period Art. 326. Setting fire to property exclusively owned by the offender. — If the property respect to the property which belonged to the deceased spouse before the same shall burned shall be the exclusive property of the offender, he shall be punished by arresto have passed into the possession of another; and 3. Brothers and sisters and Art. 342. Forcible abductio mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum period, if the arson brothersinlaw and sistersinlaw, if living together. The exemption established by this lewd designs shall be pun shall have been committed for the purpose of defrauding or causing damage to article shall not be applicable to strangers participating in the commission of the crime. imposed in every case, if t another, or prejudice shall actually have been caused, or if the thing burned shall have Consented abduction. — been a building in an inhabited place. (11) CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY Chapter One ADULTERY AND CONCUBINAGE eighteen years of age, ca Art. 326A. In cases where death resulted as a consequence of arson. — If death Art. 333. Who are guilty of adultery. — Adultery is committed by any married woman punished by the penalty of p resulted as a consequence of arson committed on any of the properties and under any who shall have sexual intercourse with a man not her husband and by the man who Chapter Five PROVISION of the circumstances mentioned in the preceding articles, the court shall impose the has carnal knowledge of her knowing her to be married, even if the marriage be death penalty. subsequently declared void. Adultery shall be punished by prision correccional in its Art. 344. Prosecution of th Art. 326B. Prima facie evidence of arson. — Any of the following circumstances shall medium and maximum periods. If the person guilty of adultery committed this offense rape and acts of lascivious constitute prima facie evidence of arson: 1. If after the fire, are found materials or while being abandoned without justification by the offended spouse, the penalty next be prosecuted except upo substances soaked in gasoline, kerosene, petroleum, or other inflammables, or any lower in degree than that provided in the next preceding paragraph shall be imposed. party cannot institute crim mechanical, electrical chemical or traces or any of the foregoing. 2. That substantial Art. 334. Concubinage. — Any husband who shall keep a mistress in the conjugal they are both alive, nor, i amount of inflammable substance or materials were stored within the building not dwelling, or shall have sexual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances, with a offenders. The offenses of necessary in the course of the defendant's business; and 3. That the fire started woman who is not his wife, or shall cohabit with her in any other place, shall be not be prosecuted except u simultaneously in more than one part of the building or locale under circumstances that punished by prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods. The concubine grandparents, or guardian cannot normally be due to accidental or unintentional causes: Provided, however, That shall suffer the penalty of destierro. pardoned by the above na at least one of the following is present in any of the three abovementioned Chapter Two RAPE AND ACTS OF LASCIVIOUSNESS abduction, acts of lascivio circumstances: (a) That the total insurance carried on the building and/or goods is Art. 335. When and how rape is committed. — Rape is committed by having carnal offended party shall extingu more than 80 per cent of the value of such building and/or goods at the time of the fire; knowledge of a woman under any of the following circumstances: 1. By using force or upon him. The provisions o (b) That the defendant after the fire has presented a fraudulent claim for loss. The intimidation; 2. When the woman is deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious; and accomplices and accessorie penalty of prision correccional shall be imposed on one who plants the articles 3. When the woman is under twelve years of age, even though neither of the Art. 345. Civil liability of pe abovementioned, in order to secure a conviction, or as a means of extortion or circumstances mentioned in the two next preceding paragraphs shall be present. The rape, seduction or abduct coercion. (As amended by R.A. 5467, approved May 12, 1969). crime of rape shall be punished by reclusion perpetua. Whenever the crime of rape is woman. 2. To acknowledge Chapter Nine MALICIOUS MISCHIEF committed with the use of a deadly weapon or by two or more persons, the penalty doing. 3. In every case to s Art. 327. Who are liable for malicious mischief. — Any person who shall deliberately shall be reclusion perpetua to death. When by reason or on the occasion of the rape, case provided for in Artic cause the property of another any damage not falling within the terms of the next the victim has become insane, the penalty shall be death. When rape is attempted or proceeding or in a separat preceding chapter shall be guilty of malicious mischief. frustrated and a homicide is committed by reason or on the occasion thereof, the offended spouse. Art. 328. Special cases of malicious mischief. — Any person who shall cause damage penalty shall be likewise death. When by reason or on the occasion of the rape, a Art. 346. Liability of ascend to obstruct the performance of public functions, or using any poisonous or corrosive homicide is committed, the penalty shall be death. (As amended by R.A. 2632, the custody of the offende substance; or spreading any infection or contagion among cattle; or who cause approved June 18, 1960, and R.A. 4111, approved June 20, 1964). and any person who, by ab damage to the property of the National Museum or National Library, or to any archive Art. 336. Acts of lasciviousness. — Any person who shall commit any act of as accomplices in the perp or registry, waterworks, road, promenade, or any other thing used in common by the lasciviousness upon other persons of either sex, under any of the circumstances and fourth, of this title, sha public, shall be punished: 1. By prision correccional in its minimum and medium mentioned in the preceding article, shall be punished by prision correccional. any other capacity entruste periods, if the value of the damage caused exceeds 1,000 pesos; 2. By arresto mayor, Chapter Three SEDUCTION, CORRUPTION OF MINORS AND WHITE SLAVE the penalty of temporary if such value does not exceed the abovementioned amount but it is over 200 pesos; TRADE special disqualification. Any and 3. By arresto menor, in such value does not exceed 200 pesos. Art. 337. Qualified seduction. — The seduction of a virgin over twelve years and under person guilty of corruption Art. 329. Other mischiefs. — The mischiefs not included in the next preceding article eighteen years of age, committed by any person in public authority, priest, special disqualification from shall be punished: 1. By arresto mayor in its medium and maximum periods, if the homeservant, domestic, guardian, teacher, or any person who, in any capacity, shall value of the damage caused exceeds 1,000 pesos; 2. By arresto mayor in its minimum be entrusted with the education or custody of the woman seduced, shall be punished (12) CRIMES AGAINST TH and medium periods, if such value is over 200 pesos but does not exceed 1,000 pesos; by prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods. The penalty next higher in Chapter one: SIMULAT and 3. By arresto menor or fine of not less than the value of the damage caused and degree shall be imposed upon any person who shall seduce his sister or descendant, Art. 347. Simulation of birth not more than 200 pesos, if the amount involved does not exceed 200 pesos or cannot whether or not she be a virgin or over eighteen years of age. Under the provisions of abandonment of a legitima be estimated. this Chapter, seduction is committed when the offender has carnal knowledge of any of one child for another shall Art. 330. Damage and obstruction to means of communication. — The penalty of the persons and under the circumstances described herein. 1,000 pesos. The same pen prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods shall be imposed upon any Art. 338. Simple seduction. — The seduction of a woman who is single or a widow of or abandon any legitimate person who shall damage any railway, telegraph or telephone lines. If the damage shall good reputation, over twelve but under eighteen years of age, committed by means of Any physician or surgeon result in any derailment of cars, collision or other accident, the penalty of prision mayor deceit, shall be punished by arresto mayor. profession or office, shall c shall be imposed, without prejudice to the criminal liability of the offender for the other Art. 339. Acts of lasciviousness with the consent of the offended party. — The penalty the two next preceding pa consequences of his criminal act. For the purpose of the provisions of the article, the of arresto mayor shall be imposed to punish any other acts of lasciviousness also the penalty of tempora electric wires, traction cables, signal system and other things pertaining to railways, committed by the same persons and the same circumstances as those provided in Art. 348. Usurpation of civi shall be deemed to constitute an integral part of a railway system. Articles 337 and 338. upon any person who shal Art. 331. Destroying or damaging statues, public monuments or paintings. — Any Art. 340. Corruption of minors. — Any person who shall promote or facilitate the purpose of defrauding the person who shall destroy or damage statues or any other useful or ornamental public prostitution or corruption of persons underage to satisfy the lust of another, shall be correccional in its medium a monument shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor in its medium period to prision punished by prision mayor, and if the culprit is a pubic officer or employee, including Ch correccional in its minimum period. Any person who shall destroy or damage any those in governmentowned or controlled corporations, he shall also suffer the penalty Art. 349. Bigamy. — The p useful or ornamental painting of a public nature shall suffer the penalty of arresto of temporary absolute disqualification. (As amended by Batas Pambansa Blg. 92). Art. who shall contract a secon menor or a fine not exceeding 200 pesos, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the 341. White slave trade. — The penalty of prision mayor in its medium and maximum been legally dissolved, or b discretion of the court. period shall be imposed upon any person who, in any manner, or under any pretext, dead by means of a judgme Chapter Ten EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN CRIMES AGAINST shall engage in the business or shall profit by prostitution or shall enlist the services of Art. 350. Marriage contrac PROPERTY any other for the purpose of prostitution (As amended by Batas Pambansa Blg. 186.) correccional in its medium Art. 332. Persons exempt from criminal liability. — No criminal, but only civil liability, who, without being include shall result from the commission of the crime of theft, swindling or malicious mischief not been complied with or committed or caused mutually by the following persons: 1. Spouses, ascendants and either of the contracting p descendants, or relatives by affinity in the same line. 2. The widowed spouse with