UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS

SCHOOL OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE

College of Law
Cebu City

COURSE SYLLABUS IN
CRIMINAL LAW 2
AY 2020-2021

Discussion Guide for Module 7

TITLE IX
CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL LIBERTY AND SECURITY

Crimes against liberty

Art. 267. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention.

What is the essence of kidnapping for ransom?
When shall deprivation of liberty constitute kidnapping and serious illegal detention
under 267?
Distinguish kidnapping from grave coercion.
What special complex crimes may arise in kidnapping?
How should the crime be designated when the kidnapped victim was killed by his
abductors?
What is the nature of crime of kidnapping with homicide?
When will the crime be homicide or murder or any other crime and not kidnapping?
Will any and all kinds of deprivation result to the crime of kidnapping?
Where detention and killing of the victim both occurred, what will determine what
crime was committed?
What makes delivery of money robbery and not kidnapping for ransom?

Art. 268. Slight illegal detention.

What makes the detention slight illegal detention and not kidnapping and serious illegal
detention?

Art. 269. Unlawful arrest.

 What is the essence of the crime of unlawful arrest?
What are the grounds for a lawful arrest without a warrant?

Art. 270. Kidnapping and failure to return a minor.

What are the elements of the crime of failure to return a minor?
What is shown by the phrase “deliberately fails”?

Art. 271. Inducing a minor to abandon his home.

Relate the crime of kidnapping and serious illegal detention with inducing a minor to
abandon his home.

Art. 272. Slavery.

Art. 273. Exploitation of child labor.

Art. 274. Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt.

Compare art. 272, 273, 274 with 267.

Crimes against security.

Art. 275. Abandonment of persons in danger and abandonment of one’s own victim.
What are the different kinds of abandonment?

Art. 276. Abandoning a minor.

Art. 277. Abandonment of minor by person entrusted with his custody, indifference of parents.

Art. 278. Exploitation of minors.

What kind of business does art. 278 speak of?
Who are included in the definition of “children” in the law?

Art. 279. Additional penalties for other offenses.

What penalties are imposable when the abandonment resulted to other crimes?

Art. 280. Qualified trespass to dwelling.

Art. 281. Other forms of trespass.

In the crime of trespass, what will determine whether the crime committed is qualified
trespass
to dwelling or trespass to property?
What does the phrase “against the will of the owner” denote?
Is the occupant required to be the owner of the dwelling?
Under what circumstances is trespass not committed?
Who should give the permission or prohibit the entry to dwelling.
Art. 282. Grave threats.

Art. 283. Light threats.

Art. 284. Bond for good behavior.

Art. 285. Other light threats.

Art. 286. Grave coercions.

Art. 287. Light coercions.

What are the principal distinctions between threat and coercion?
May coercion be in writing?
What different crimes can arise from intimidation?
Distinguish among the three kinds of threat.
Compare light threat with blackmailing.
How should the phrase “some harm not constituting a crime” in art. 285, no. 2 be
construed?
What is bond for good behavior?
What are the nature and forms of other light threat?
What are the kinds of grave coercion?
Why is the distinction between preventive and compulsive coercion significant?
What is required of intimidation to make the act grave coercion?
Is a threat to file criminal charges unlawful?
What is unjust vexation?

Art. 288. Other similar coercions.

Art. 289. Formulation, maintenance and prohibition of combination of capital or labor through
violence or threats.

Discovery and revelation of secrets.

Art. 290. Discovering secrets through seizure of correspondence.

Art. 291. Revealing secrets with abuse of office.
Art. 292. Revelation of industrial secrets.
What is penalized in art. 290. on seizure of correspondence?
What other crimes may be committed in relation to seizure of correspondence?
Who are exempted from the provisions of art. 290.