SET “A”

Name: _________________________________________ Block ____ Date: _________ Score:

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1. ____________________ is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law forbidding or

commanding it.
2. ____________________ are acts and omissions punishable by the Revised Penal Code.
3. ____________________ is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without trial. Its essence is
the substitution of a legislative act for a judicial determination of guilt.
4. ____________________. One of the characteristics of criminal law which states that criminal law is
binding on all persons who live or sojourn in Philippine territory.
5. ____________________ One of the characteristics of criminal law which states that criminal laws
undertake to punish crimes committed within the Philippine territory.
6. ____________________ One of the characteristics of criminal law which states that a penal law
cannot make an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed.
7. Penal laws are strictly construed against the government and liberally in favor of the
____________________.
8. ____________________ is a misapprehension of fact on the part of the person who caused injury
to another. He is not, however, criminally liable, because he did not act with criminal intent.
9. ____________________ Criminal liability shall be incurred by any person performing an act which
would be an offense against persons or property, were it not for the inherent impossibility of its
accomplishment or on account of the employment of inadequate or ineffectual means.
10. ____________________. One of the theories of criminal law which states that man is subdued
occasionally by a strange and morbid phenomenon which constrains him to do wrong, in spite of or
contrary to his volition.

(11-13) Give the 3 requisites of Culpa. Write your answers below.

11. ________________________________________
12. ________________________________________
13. ________________________________________

(14-15) Give at least 2 exceptions to the territorial application of criminal law (Article 2 of the Revised
penal Code.) Write your answers below.
14. ________________________________________________________________________________
15. ________________________________________________________________________________

16. One who gave a fist blow on the head of D, causing the latter to fall with the latter’s head striking
a hard pavement, is liable for the death of D, which resulted although the one who gave the fist blow
had no intention to kill D. Encircle the correct answer.
a. Error in personae b. Aberratio ictus c. Praeter intentionem

17. One who stabbed another in the dark, believing that the latter was E, when in fact he was G, is
liable for the injury caused to G, although the one who stabbed him had no intention to injure G.
a. Error in personae b. Aberratio ictus c. Praeter intentionem

18. One who fired his gun at B, but missed and hit C instead, is liable for the injury caused to C,
although the one who fired the gun had no intention to injure C.
a. Error in personae b. Aberratio ictus c. Praeter intentionem

19. A, with intent to gain, took a watch from the pocket of B. When A had the watch in his possession,
he found out that it was the watch which he had lost a week before. What was the crime committed?
a. Theft b. Attempted Theft c. Impossible Crime

20. A, determined to poison to poison B, uses sufficient quantity of arsenic by mixing it with the food
given to B, but B has developed strong resistance to poison because he has been working in a mine.
What was the crime committed?
a. Attempted Murder b. Frustrated Murder c. Impossible Crime
21. A fired at B, his brother, who was lying on bed, not knowing that B was dead hours before. What
was the crime committed?
a. Murder b. No crime c. Impossible Crime

22. A fired at B, his brother, who was lying on bed, knowing that B was dead hours before. What was
the crime committed?
a. Murder b. No crime c. Impossible Crime

(23-25) Give at least 3 differences between Mala in se and Mala prohibita.

Mala in se Mala prohibita

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-Nothing follows-

“Walang mapipiga sa tuyong basahan.”