Saint Vincent College of Cabuyao

Criminology Department
Criminal Law I
QUIZ 2 SY 2020-2021

Name: __JOHN JOSHUA P. BRON__ Rating: ________________

Section: _ 3A7 __ Date Taken: ___25/09/2021___

Instruction: Read every questions carefully: Analyze each questions, problems, and situations. Write your answer in the
blank space provided to each corresponding numbers.

I. Enumeration (1 point each)

1. Give at least three (3) sources of Philippine Criminal Law.
- The Revised Penal Code
- Special Penal Laws
- Presidential Decrees issued during Martial Law
2. Two (2) ways felony is committed under Art. 3, RPC.
- DOLO AND CULPA
3. Three (3) Classification as to execution.
- Consummated
- Frustrated
- Attempted
4. Three (3) Classification as to gravity of Punishment attached.
- Grave Felonies
- Less Grave Felonies
- Light Felonies
5. Give three (6) kinds of defenses to justify criminal liability.
- Defense of Property
- Defense of Relative
- Defense of Stranger
6. Seven (7) circumstances which exempt from criminal liability.
- Imbecile and Insane Person
- A person under 9 years of age
- A person over nine years of age
- Any person who, while performing a lawful act with due care, causes an injury by mere accident without
fault or intention of causing it
- Any person who acts under the compulsion of an irresistible force.
- Any person who acts under the impulse of an uncontrollable fear of an equal or greater injury.\
- Any person who fails to perform an act required by law, when prevented by some lawful or insuperable
cause.
7. Give at least five (5) mitigating circumstances.
- Those mentioned in the preceding chapter, when all the requisites necessary to justify the act or to
exempt from criminal liability in the respective cases are not attendant
- That the offender is under 18 years of age or over 70 years. In the case of a minor
- That the offender had no intention to commit so grave a wrong as that committed (praeter intentionem)
- That the sufficient provocation or threat on the part of the offended party immediately preceded the act.
- That of having acted upon an impulse so powerful as naturally to have produced passion or obfuscation
8. Three (3) Persons Criminally Liable for Felonies.
9. Three (3) Cardinal Features or Characteristics of Criminal Law.
II. Essay. Justify your answer. A mere Yes or No without any justification will not be given merit. (5 points each)

1. Distinguish Crimes Mala Inse and Mala Prohibita.

2. Distinguish Error in personae and Aberratio Ictus.

3. A person enters the dwelling of another. However, at the very moment of his entry and before he could do
anything, he is already apprehended by the household members, can he be charged with attempted
robbery?

4. Ah Chong was afraid of bad elements so one evening, before going to bed, he locked himself in his room
and placed a chair against the door. After going to bed, he was awakened by someone who was trying to
open the door. He called out, “Who is there?” twice but received no answer. He then said, “If you enter the
room, I will kill you.” At that moment, he was struck by the chair. Believing he was being attacked, he took a
kitchen knife and stabbed the intruder who turned out to be his roommate. Is he criminally liable?

5. X stabbed Y in the abdomen, penetrating the liver and chest of Y. Y was rushed to the hospital and was
given immediate medical treatment. Is X liable for consummated homicide?