Suspensio Reclusió

Aggravating, exempting and mitigating Fine is not more than n or Arresto menor Arresto mayor Prisión correccional Prisión mayor Reclusión temporal
Crime
circumstances
Public censure disqualific
n Death
(unless specified)
ation perpetua
Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max
Treason ₱4,000,000 Yes

Consipracy to commit treason ₱2,000,000 Yes

Proposal to commit treason ₱1,000,000 Yes

If a public officer Yes

Espionage
All other cases Yes

Inciting to war or giving If a public officer Yes

motives for reprisals
If a private individual Yes
Violation of neutrality Yes
If prohibited by the government Yes
If correspondence was carried on in ciphers
Yes
or conventional signs
Correspondence with hostile If information given might be useful to the
country Yes
enemy
If information given might be useful to the
enemy, and offender intended to aid the Yes
enemy

Flight to enemy country Yes

Piracy in general and mutiny on the high seas Yes

Qualified piracy Yes

Detention has not exceeded three days Yes
Detention is more than three days, but less
Yes
than 15 days
Arbitrary detention Detention is more than 15 days, but less
Yes
than six months
Detention has exceeded more than six
Yes
months

Delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authorities.

Same as above penalties for arbitrary detention.

Delaying release
Expulsion Yes

If committed at night-time, or if any papers

or effects not constituting evidence of a
Yes
Violation of domicile crime be not returned immediately after the
search made by the offender

All other cases Yes

Search warrants maliciously obtained and abuse in the service of

₱200,000 Yes
those legally obtained

Searching domicile without witnesses Yes

Prohibition, interruption and dissolution of peaceful meetings Yes

Interruption of religious If committed with violence or threats Yes

worship All other cases Yes
Offending the religious feelings Yes

Offender promotes, maintains, or heads ₱20,000 Yes

Rebellion or insurrection Offender merely participating or executing
Yes
the commands of others
Offender leads or in any manner directs or
Yes
commands others

If a public officer participates, or executes

Yes
Coup d'etat directions or commands of others

If not a public officer, and participates, or

Yes
executes directions or commands of others

Conspiracy and proposal to commit coup d'etat' ₱1,000,000 Yes

Conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion' ₱1,000,000 Yes

Conspiracy and proposal to commit insurrection' ₱400,000 Yes

Disloyalty of public officers or employees Yes

Inciting a rebellion or insurrection Yes

If leader ₱2,000,000 Yes

Sedition
Other participants ₱1,000,000 Yes
Conspiracy to commit sedition ₱400,000 Yes
Inciting to sedition ₱400,000 Yes

Act tending to prevent the meeting of the Assembly and similar

₱40,000 to ₱400,000 Yes
bodies

Disturbance of proceedings ₱200,000 Yes

Violation of parliamentary immunity Yes

If leader Yes
Illegal assemblies If present Yes
If present, and armed Yes
If founders, directors, and presidents ₱200,000 Yes
Illegal associations
If members Yes
If assault is committed with a weapon, or
₱200,000 Yes
Direct assaults against a person of authority
All other cases ₱100,000 Yes
Indirect assaults ₱100,000 Yes
Disobedience to summons ₱40,000 to ₱200,000 Yes
Resistance and disobedience Resist or seriously disobey ₱100,000 Yes
to a person in authority Not of a serious nature ₱2,000 to ₱20,000 Yes
If serious disturbance ₱200,000 Yes
If serious disturbance is of tumultuous
Yes
character
Tumultuous disturbance or
interruption liable to cause If offender make any outcry tending to incite
disturbance rebellion or sedition or in such place shall Yes
display placards or emblems

If offender buries with pomp the body of a

₱40,000 Yes
person who has been legally executed

Unlawful use of means of publication and unlawful utterances ₱40,000 to ₱200,000 Yes
Alarms and scandals ₱40,000 Yes

If offender removes from any jail or penal

establishment any person confined therein
Delivery of prisoners from Yes
or shall help the escape of such person, by
jails
means of violence, intimidation, or bribery

If by other means Yes

If convict escaped Yes
Evasion of service of
If convict was unlawfully done Yes
sentence
If convict violated conditions of pardon Yes

Counterfeiting the great seal of the Government of the Philippine

Yes
Islands, forging the signature or stamp of the Chief Executive

Using forged signature or counterfeit seal or stamp Yes

Making and importing and If coinage of the Philippines ₱400,000 Yes

uttering false coins If counterfeit is from a foreign country ₱200,000 Yes
With connivance ₱400,000 Yes
Mutilation of coins
Without connivance Yes
if the document is an obligation or security
₱2,000,000 Yes
of the Philippines
Forging treasury or bank
if the document is an obligation or security
notes on other documents ₱1,000,000 Yes
of a banking institution
payable to bearer; importing,
if the document is an obligation or security
and uttering such false or ₱1,000,000 Yes
forged notes and documents of a foreign government
if the document is an obligation or security
₱400,000 Yes
of a foreign bank

Counterfeiting, importing and uttering instruments not payable to bearer ₱1,200,000 Yes

Falsification of legislative documents ₱1,200,000 Yes

Falsification by public officer, employee or notary or ecclesiastic minister ₱1,000,000 Yes

Falsification by private individual and use of falsified documents ₱1,000,000 Yes

Falsification of wireless, Yes

Creation of dispatch
cable, telegraph and
telephone messages

Usage of dispatch Yes

False medical certificates, If physician or surgeon, or if a public officer ₱200,000 Yes

false certificates of merits or Yes
If a private indlvidual
service, etc.
Usage of certificates Yes

Manufacturing and
Making or introduction ₱1,000,000 Yes
possession of instruments or
implements for falsification

Usage Yes
 If offender publicly use a fictitious name for
the purpose of concealing a crime, evading
₱100,000 Yes
Using fictitious name and the execution of a judgment or causing
concealing true name. damage
If offender conceals his true name and other
₱40,000 Yes
personal circumstances

Illegal use of uniforms or insignia Yes

If the defendant was sentenced to death Yes

if the defendant shall have been sentenced

Yes
to reclusión temporal or reclusión perpetua
False testimony against a
If the defendant shall have been sentenced
defendant Yes
to any other afflictive penalty
If the defendant shall have been sentenced ₱200,000
to a correctional penalty or a fine, or shall Yes
have been acquitted
If the prosecution is for a felony punishable
False testimony favorable to ₱200,000 Yes
by an afflictive penalty
the defendants
Any other case Yes

If amount is more than one million pesos ₱1,000,000 Yes

False testimony in civil cases
If amount is less than one million pesos or
₱200,000 Yes
cannot be estimated

False testimony in other cases and perjury in solemn affirmation Yes

Offering false testimony in evidence Depends on the penalties for any of the false testimony crimes.

Machinations in public auctions Yes

Monopolies and If affects any food substance, motor fuel or

lubricants, or other articles of prime Yes
combinations in restraint necessity
of trade If other products or service Yes

Importation and disposition of falsely marked articles or merchandise made

₱40,000 Yes
of metals

Grave scandal Yes Yes

Immoral doctrines, obscene publications and exhibitions and

₱20,000 Yes
indecent shows

If recidivist ₱20,000 to ₱200,000 Yes

Prostitution
All other cases ₱20,000 Yes
Perpetual
absolute
Knowingly rendering unjust judgment Yes
disqualifica
tion
Temporary
special
Judgment rendered through negligence Yes
disqualifica
tion
All other cases Yes
If offender have acted by reason of Suspensio
Unjust interlocutory order
inexcusable negligence or ignorance, and n
order was manifestly unjust

Malicious delay in the administration of justice Yes

Suspensio
Prosecution of offenses; negligence and tolerance Yes
n
Betrayal of trust by an attorney or solicitor, or revelation of secrets ₱40,000 Yes

Special
If act subject of bribery was accomplished Yes
temporary
Direct bribery disqualifica
If act subject of bribery was not
tion Yes
accomplished
Indirect bribery Yes Yes
Frauds against the public treasury and similar offenses ₱40,000 to ₱2,000,000 Yes
Temporary
special
disqualifica
tion in its
maximum
Other frauds
period to
perpetual
special
disqualifica
tion
Prohibited transactions ₱40,000 to ₱2,000,000 Yes

Possession of prohibited interest by a public officer ₱40,000 to ₱200,000 Yes

If value is less than 40.000 pesos Yes

If value is more than 40,000 pesos and less
Yes
than 1,200,000 pesos
If value is more than 1,200,000 pesos and Equal to the amount of the Perpetual
Yes
Malversation of public less than 2.400,000 pesos funds malversed or equal special
funds or property If value is more than 2,400,000 pesos and to the total value of the disqualifica
Yes
less than 4,400,000 pesos property embezzled tion
If value is more than 4,400,000 pesos and
Yes
less than 8,800,000 pesos
If value is more than 8.800,000 pesos Yes
Failure of accountable officer to render accounts ₱40,000 to ₱1,200,000 Yes

Temporary
Failure of a responsible public officer to render accounts before leaving the special
₱40,000 to ₱200,000 Yes
country disqualifica
tion
5% to 25% of the sum that
Failure to make delivery of public funds or property Yes
was not delivered
Temporary
special
disqualifica
tion in its
If the fugitive shall have been sentenced by maximum
Yes
Conniving with or final judgment to any penalty period to
perpetual
consenting to evasion of special
prisoners disqualifica
tion
Temporary
If the fugitive shall not have been finally
special
convicted but only held as a detention Yes
disqualifica
prisoner
tion
Temporary
special
Evasion of prisoners through negligence Yes
disqualifica
tion

Escape of prisoner under the custody of a person not a public officer Same as the evasion of prisoners for public officers, only that it is one degree lower.

Temporary
special
When serious damage is caused disqualifica Yes
Removal, concealment or
₱200,000 tion in its
destruction of documents
maximum
period to
When damage is not serious Yes
perpetual
Temporary
special
Officer breaking seal ₱400,000 Yes
disqualifica
tion
 Temporary
special
Opening of closed documents ₱400,000 Yes
disqualifica
tion
Perpetual
special
When serious damage is caused ₱400,000 Yes
disqualifica
Revelation of secrets by an tion
officer Temporary
special
When damage is not serious ₱100,000 Yes
disqualifica
tion

Public officer revealing secrets of private individual ₱200,000 Yes

Temporary
special
disqualifica
Open disobedience to a judgment ₱200,000 Yes
tion in its
maximum
period

Perpetual
Disobedience to order of superior officers, when said order was suspended special
Yes
by inferior officer disqualifica
tion

Perpetual
special
Refusal of assistance of a When serious damage is caused ₱200,000 Yes
disqualifica
public officer
tion
When damage is not serious ₱100,000 Yes

Refusal to discharge elective office ₱200,000 Yes

Temporary
If the purpose of the maltreatment is to
special
extort a confession, or to obtain some ₱100,000 Yes
Maltreatment of prisoners information from the prisoner disqualifica
tion
All other cases Yes
Suspensio
Anticipation of duties of a public office ₱100,000
n
Special
temporary
disqualifica
Prolonging performance of duties and powers of a public officer ₱100,000 Yes
tion in its
minimum
period
If abandoned top evade discharge of the
Abandonment of office or duties preventing, prosecuting or punishing Yes
position of a public officer any of the crime
All other cases Yes

Usurpation of legislative powers ₱200,000 Yes

Usurpation of executive functions Yes

Usurpation of judicial functions Yes

Disobeying request for disqualification ₱100,000 Yes

Orders or requests by executive officers to any judicial authority ₱100,000 Yes

Unlawful appointments ₱200,000 Yes

If against the wife, daughter, sister of Temporary

relative within the same degree by affinity of special
Abuses against chastity by Yes
any person in the custody of such warden or disqualifica
public officers
officer, tion
All other cases Yes
Parricide Yes
Murder Yes
Homicide Yes

Frustrated parricide, murder or homicide Same as respective punishments, only that it is one degree lower.
 If it cannot be ascertained who actually
killed the deceased, but the person or
Yes
Death caused in a persons who inflicted serious physical
tumultuous affray injuries can be identified
If it cannot be determined who inflicted the
Yes
serious physical injuries

If serious physical injuries are inflicted upon

the participants thereof and the person Same as respective punishments, only that it is one degree lower.
responsible thereof cannot be identified
Physical injuries inflicted in a
tumultuous affray
When the physical injuries inflicted are of a
less serious nature and the person Yes
responsible therefore cannot be identified

If person successfully kills oneself Yes

Giving assistance to suicide If a person merely assisted Yes
If person failed in killing oneself Yes
Unless it is an attempted or frustrated
Discharge of firearms Yes
parricide, murder or homicide
If committed by mother of the child for the
Yes
purpose of concealing her dishonor
Infanticide If committed by maternal grandparents Yes
All other cases Same as parricide or murder
If violence upon the person of the pregnant
Yes
woman was done
Abortion If without violence upon and without the
Yes
consent of the woman
If the woman consented Yes
Unintentional abortion If violence was done Yes
If practiced upon herself or consent to
Yes
another person
Abortion practiced by the
woman herself of by her If practiced upon herself to conceal dishonor Yes
parents
If practiced by her parents for concealing her
Yes
dishonor
If violence upon the person of the pregnant
Yes
woman was done
If without violence upon and without the
Abortion practiced by a Yes
consent of the woman
physician or midwife and
dispensing of abortives If the woman consented Yes
If pharmacist who, without the proper
prescription from a physician shall dispense ₱100,000 Yes
any abortive
If adversary was killed Yes
Dueling
If no physical injuries inflicted Yes
Challenging to a duel Yes
If victim was deprived either totally or
partially, or some essential organ of Yes
Mutilation reproduction.
All other cases Yes
If the injured person shall become insane,
Yes
imbecile, impotent, or blind
If person injured shall have lost the use of
speech or the power to hear or to smell, or
shall have lost an eye, a hand, a foot, an
Yes
arm, or a leg or shall have lost the use of
any such member, or shall have become
incapacitated for the work
Serious physical injuries If the person injured shall have become
deformed, or shall have lost any other part
of his body, or shall have lost the use
Yes
thereof, or shall have been ill or
incapacitated for the performance of the
work

If the physical injuries inflicted shall have

caused the illness or incapacity for labor of Yes
the injured person for more than thirty days

Administering injurious substances or beverages Same as serious physical injuries.

 If the physical injuries inflicted shall have
caused the illness or incapacity for labor of Yes
the injured person for 10 days or more

If manifest intent to insult or offend the

Less serious physical injuries injured person, or under circumstances ₱50,000 Yes
adding ignominy to the offense

Inflicted upon the offender's parents,

ascendants, guardians, curators, teachers, Yes
or persons of rank, or persons in authority

If the offender has inflicted physical injuries

which shall incapacitate the offended party
Yes
for labor from one to nine days, or shall
require medical attendance
Slight physical injuries and
maltreatment If it caused physical injuries which do not
prevent the offended party from engaging in
Yes ₱40,000 Yes, or fine.
his habitual work nor require medical
assistance
If the offender shall ill-treat another by deed Yes, or
without causing any injury fine
All other cases Yes
If done with a deadly weapon Yes
If victim became insane Yes
If rape is attempted and homicide is
Yes
committed
If rape and homicide is committed Yes

When the victim is under eighteen (18)

years of age and the offender is a parent,
ascendant, step-parent, guardian, relative by
Yes
consanguinity or affinity within the third civil
degree, or the common-law spouse of the
parent of the victim

When the victim is under the custody of the

police or military authorities or any law Yes
enforcement or penal institution
When the rape is committed in full view of
the spouse, parent, any of the children or
Yes
other relatives within the third civil degree of
consanguinity

When the victim is a religious engaged in

legitimate religious vocation or calling and is Yes
Rape, when offender has personally known to be such by the offender
carnal knowledge of a When the victim is a child below seven
Yes
woman years old

When the offender knows that he is afflicted

with the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus
/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or
Yes
any other sexually transmissible
disease and the virus or disease is
transmitted to the victim

When committed by any member of the

Armed Forces of the Philippines or para-
military units thereof or the Philippine
National Police or any law enforcement Yes
agency or penal institution, when the
offender took advantage of his position to
facilitate the commission of the crime

When by reason or on the occasion of the

rape, the victim has suffered permanent Yes
physical mutilation or disability

When the offender knew of the pregnancy of

the offended party at the time of the Yes
commission of the crime
When the offender knew of the mental
disability, emotional disorder and/or physical Yes
handicap of the offended party
 Whenever the rape is committed with the
Rape, if inserting his penis use of a deadly weapon or by two or more Yes
into another person's mouth persons
or anal orifice, or any When by reason or on the occasion of the
Yes
instrument or object, into the rape, the victim has become insane
genital or anal orifice of If rape is attempted and homicide is
Yes
another person committed
If rape and homicide is committed Yes

Acts of lasciviousness Yes

If committed for the purpose of extorting

Kidnapping and serious Yes
ransom
illegal detention All other cases Yes

If offender released victim within three days

of detention, did not attain purpose, and ₱100,000 Yes
Slight illegal detention
before proceedings against him

All other cases Yes

Unlawful arrest ₱100,000 Yes

Kidnapping and failure to return a minor

Inducing a minor to abandon If offender is parent of the minor ₱40,000 Yes

his home All other cases ₱100,000 Yes
If purpose is for illegal trafficking Yes
Slavery
All other cases Yes
Child labor Yes

Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt Yes

Abandonment of person in danger and abandonment of one's own victim Yes

If minor died Yes

Abandoning a minor If minor was merely in danger ₱100,000 Yes
All other cases Yes

Abandonment of minor by person entrusted with his custody ₱100,000 Yes

Exploitation of minors ₱100,000 Yes

Qualified trespass to If committed by violence or intimidation Yes
₱200,000
dwelling All other cases Yes

Other forms of trespass ₱40,000 Yes

Light threats Yes

Other light threats ₱40,000 Yes
Grave coercions ₱100,000 Yes
Light coercions ₱15,000 Yes

Other coercions or unjust vexations ₱1,000 Yes

Compulsory purchase of merchandise and payment of wages by means of

₱40,000 to ₱100,000 Yes
tokens

Formation, maintenance and prohibition of combination of capital or

₱60,000 Yes
labor through violence or threats

Discovering secrets through If secrets were revealed Yes

₱100,000
seizure of correspondence If secrets were not revealed Yes
Revealing secrets with abuse
If secrets were revealed ₱100,000 Yes
of office
Revelation of industrial secrets ₱100,000 Yes

If the crime of homicide shall have been

committed; or when the robbery shall have
Yes
been accompanied by rape or intentional
mutilation or arson
Robbery with violence
If serious physical injuries have been
against or intimidation of Yes
inflicted
persons If physical injuries have been inflicted Yes

If light physical injuries have been inflicted Yes

All other cases Yes

Attempted and frustrated robbery Yes

If not acts cannot be punished by higher

Yes
penalties
Brigandage
If acts can be punished by higher penalties The higher penalties will then be followed.

Aiding and abetting a band of brigands Yes

If value is more than 2,200.000 pesos Yes

If value is more than 1,200,000 pesos but
Yes
less than 2,200,000 pesos
If value is more than 20,000 pesos but less
Yes
than 600,000 pesos
If value is more than 5,000 pesos but less
Yes
than 20,000 pesos
If value is more than 500 pesos but less
Yes
than 5,000 pesos
Theft
If value is less than 500 pesos Yes

If value is less than 500 pesos, and enter an

enclosed estate or a field where trespass is
Yes
forbidden or which belongs to another and
without the consent of its owner

If value is less than 500 pesos, and if

offender under the impulse of hunger, Yes
poverty, etc.

Theft of the property of the National Library and National Museum ₱40,000 to ₱100,000 Yes

Occupation of real property or usurpation of real rights in property ₱15,000

Altering boundaries or landmarks ₱20,000 Yes

If a merchant Yes
Fraudulent insolvency
If not a merchant Yes
If value is more than 4,400,000 pesos Yes
If value is more than 2,400,000 pesos but
Yes
less than 4,400,000 pesos
If value is more than 1,200,000 pesos but
Swindling (estafa) Yes
less than 2,400,000 pesos
If value is more than 40,000 pesos but less
Yes
than 1,200,000 pesos
If value is less than 40,000 pesos Yes
Not less than the value of
Other forms of swindling Yes
damage caused
Swindling a minor Yes

Other deceits, including fortune-telling ₱40,000 Yes

Removal, sale or pledge of mortgaged property Yes

Destructive arson Yes

Other forms of arson Varying circumstances Yes
If damage exceeds 200,000 pesos Yes
Malicious mischief
(property damage)
Malicious mischief If damage exceeds 40,000 pesos, but less
Yes
(property damage) than 200.000 pesos
If damage is less than 40,000 pesos Yes
If damage exceeds 200,000 pesos Yes
If damage exceeds 40,000 pesos, but less
Other mischiefs Yes
than 200.000 pesos
If damage is less than 40,000 pesos, or if it
Yes
cannot be estimated

Damage and obstruction to If it caused an accident Yes

means of communication

All other cases Yes

Destroy or damage statues or any other
Destroying or damaging Yes
useful or ornamental public monument
statues, public monuments or
Destroy or damage any useful or
paintings ₱40,000 Yes
ornamental painting of a public nature
Adultery Yes
If the husband Yes
Concubinage
If the concubine The penalty shall be destierro
All other cases Yes
Qualified seduction
If seduced his sister or descendant
Simple seduction Yes

Acts of lasciviousness with the consent of the offended party Yes

Temporary
absolute
If a public officer
Corruption of minors disqualifica Yes
tion
All other cases
White slave trade Yes
Forcible abduction Yes
Consented abduction Yes

Simulation of births, Temporary

substitution of one child for special
If physician or public officer Yes
another and concealment or ₱200,000 disqualifica
abandonment of a legitimate tion
child

All other cases

If done with the intent to defraud the
Yes
Usurpation of civil status offended part
All other cases Yes
Bigamy Yes
If either of the contracting parties shall
Marriage contracted against obtain the consent of the other by means of Yes
provisions of laws violence, intimidation or fraud
All other cases Yes
Premature marriages Yes
Libel means by writings or similar means ₱40,000 to ₱1,200,000 Yes

Threatening to publish libelous statements and offer to present such

₱40,000 to ₱400,000 Yes
publication for a compensation

Prohibited publication of acts referred to in the course of official libel

₱40,000 to ₱200,000 Yes
proceedings

If of insulting nature Yes

Slander
Not of insulting nature ₱20,000 Yes
 If of serious nature Yes
Slander by deed
Not of serious nature ₱20,000 Yes

Incriminating innocent person Yes

Intriguing against honor ₱20,000 Yes

If intentional act caused a grave felony Yes

If imprudent act caused a grave felony Yes
An amount equal to the
Imprudence and If act caused damage to property value of said damages to 3
negligence times such value
If imprudent act caused some wrong, and if
done maliciously, would have been a light Yes ₱40,000
felony

Suspensio Reclusió
Aggravating, exempting and mitigating Fine is not more than n or Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max
Crime
circumstances
Public censure
disqualific
n Death
(unless specified)
ation perpetua
Arresto menor