ARTICLE 149 INDIRECT ASSAULT

1. That a PA or an APA is the victim of any of theforms of direct assault defined in Art. 148;
2. That a person comes to the aid of the APA;
3. That the offendermakes use of force or intimidation upon such person coming to the aid of the APA.

ARTICLE 150. DISOBEDIENCE TO SUMMONS ISSUED BY THE NAT’L ASSEMBLY, ITS COMMITTEES OR
SUBCOMMITTEES, BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION, ITS COMMITTEES, SUBCOMMITTEE OR
DIVISIONS
Acts punished:
1. Refusing, without legal excuse, to obey summons of Congress, or any commission or committee
chairman or member authorized to summon witnesses;
2. Refusing to be sworn or placed under affirmation while before such legislative or constitutional body
or official;
3. Refusing to answer any legal inquiry or to produce any books, papers, documents, or records in his
possession, when required by them to do so in the exercise of their functions;
4. Restraining another from attending as a witness in such legislative or constitutional body;
5. Inducing disobedience to summons or refusal to be sworn by any such body or official

ARTICLE 151 RESISTANCE & DISOBEDIENCE TO A ERSON IN AUTHORITY OR HE AGENTS OF

SUCHPERSON Elements of resistance & Serious disobedience:
1. That a PA or his APA is engaged in the performance of official duty or gives a lawful order to the
offender;
2. That the offender resists or seriously disobeys such person in authority or his agent;
3. That the act of the offender is not included in the provisions of Arts. 148-150.
Elements of simple disobedience:
1. That an APA is engaged in the performance of official duty or gives a lawful order to the offender;
2. That the offender disobeys such APA;
3. That such disobedience is not of a serious nature.

ARTICLE 153 TUMULTS & OTHER DISTURBANCES OF PUBLIC ORDER Acts punished:
1. Causing any serious disturbance in a public place, office or establishment;
2. Interrupting or disturbing public performances, functions or gatherings, or peaceful meetings, if the
act is not included in Arts. 131- 132;
3. Making an outcry tending to incite rebellion or sedition in any meeting, association or public place;
4. Displaying placards or emblems which provoke a disturbance of public order in such place;
5. Burying with pomp the body of a person who has been legally executed

ARTICLE 154 UNLAWFUL USE OF MEANS OF PUBLICATION AND UNLAWFUL UTTERANCES

Acts punished:
1. Publishing or causing to be published as news any false news which may endanger the public order, or
cause damage to the interest or credit of the State;
2. Encouraging disobedience to the law or to the constituted authorities or by praising, justifying or
extolling any act punished by law, by the same means or by words, utterances or speeches;
3. Maliciously publishing or causing to be published any official resolution or document without
authority, or before they have been published officially;
4. Printing, publishing or distributing (or causing the same) books, pamphlets, periodicals, or leaflets
which do not bear the real printer’s name, or which are classified as anonymous.

ARTICLE 155 ALARMS & SCANDALS

Acts punished:
1. Discharging any firearm, rocket, firecracker, or other explosive within any town or public place, which
produces alarm or danger
2. Instigating or taking an active part in any charivari or other disorderly meeting offensive to another
or prejudicial to public tranquility
3. Disturbing the public peace while wandering about at night or while engaged in any other nocturnal
amusements
4. Causing any disturbance or scandal in public places while intoxicated or otherwise, provided Art. 153
is not applicable

ARTICLE 156 DELIVERY OF PRISONERS FROM JAIL

1. That there is a person confined in a jail or penal establishment;
2. That the offender removes such person, or helps the escape of such person.
Committed in two ways:
1. By removing a prisoner confined in jail or penal institution – to take away a person from confinement
with or without the active participation of the person released
2. By helping said person to escape – furnish material means to facilitate escape

ARTICLE 157 EVASION OF SERVICE OF SENTENCE

1. That the offender is a convict by final judgment;
2. That he is serving his sentence, which consists in deprivation of liberty;
3. That he evades the service of his sentence by escaping during the term of his sentence.
Circumstances qualifying the offense:
1. By means of unlawful entry (“by scaling”);
2. By breaking doors, windows, gates, walls, roofs or floors;
3. By using picklocks, false keys, disguise, deceit, violence, or intimidation;
4. Through connivance with other convicts or employees of the penal institution.

ARTICLE 158 EVASION OF SENTENCE ON THE OCCASION OF DISORDERS, CONFLAGRATIONS,

EARTHQUAKES, OR OTHER CALAMITIES
1. That the offender is a convict by final judgment, and is confined in a penal institution;
2. That there is disorder, resulting from: a. Conflagration, b. Earthquake, c. Explosion, d. Similar
catastrophe, e. Mutiny in which he has not participated;
3. That the offender leaves the penal institution where he is confined, on the occasion of such disorder or
during the mutiny;
4. That the offender fails to give himself up to the authorities within 48 hrs. following the issuance of a
proclamation by the Chief Executive announcing the passing away of such calamity

ARTICLE 159 OTHER CASES OF EVASION OF SENTENCE (CONDITIONAL PARDON)

1. That the offender was a convict;
2. That he was granted a conditional pardon by the Chief Executive;
3. That he violated any of the conditions of such pardon.

FORMS OF EVASION OF SERVICE OF SENTENCE

1. By simply leaving or escaping from the penal establishment under Art. 157
2. Failure to return within 48 hours after having left the penal establishment because of a calamity,
conflagration or mutiny and such calamity, conflagration or mutiny has been announced as already
passed under Art. 158.
3. Violating the condition of conditional pardon

ARTICLE 160 COMMISSION OF ANOTHER CRIME DURING THE SERVICE OF PENALTY IMPOSED FOR
ANOTHER PREVIOUS OFFENSE (QUASI-RECIDIVISM)
1. That the offender was already convicted by final judgment;
2. That he committed a new felony before beginning to serve such sentence or while serving the same.
Who can be pardoned A quasi-recidivist can be pardoned:
1. At the age of 70, if he shall have already served out his original sentence (and not a habitual criminal);
or
2. When he shall have completed it after reaching the said age, unless by reason of his conduct or other
circumstances, he shall not be worthy of such clemency.

R.A. 8294 OR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS

1.) A person may be criminally liable only of illegal possession of firearms provided no other crime was
committed by the person arrested
2.) Mere possession of a firearm by a person who does not have authority to possess such firearm.