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Primary Ref: The RPC 8th Edition by Luis B.

Reyes
Act. No. 3815 – An Act Revising the Penal
Code and Other Penal Laws
(December 8, 1930)
Criminal Law – branch or division of law which
defines crimes, treats of their nature, and
provides for their punishment.
Limitation on the power of the lawmaking
body to enact penal legislation under 1987
Constitution:
1. No Ex Post Facto Law or Bill of
Attainder shall be enacted (Art.III,
Sec.22)
2. No person shall be held to answer for a
criminal offense without due process of
law (Art. III, Sec. 14[1])
3. No to infliction of cruel punishments
Ex Post Facto Law is one which:
Makes criminal an act done before the
passage of the law
Aggravates a crime, or makes it greater
than it was
Changes the punishment and inflicts a
greater punishment
Alters legal rules of evidence, and
authorizes conviction upon less or
different testimony than the law required
Assumes to regulate civil rights and
remedies only
Deprives a person accused of crime
some lawful protection to which he has
become entitled
Bill of Attainder – is a legislative act which
inflicts punishment without trial. Its essence is
the substitution of a legislative act for a judicial
determination of guilt.

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