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1. Distinctions between correctional, afflictive and permits society to exact proportionate revenge, and ARTICLE 34. Civil Interdiction. – Civil interdiction
divisible penalties the offender to atone for his wrongs. shall deprive the offender during the time of his
sentence of the rights of parental authority, or
A fine whether imposed as a single or as an 2. CORRECTION OR REFORMATION As shown by guardianship, either as to the person or property of
alternative penalty shall be considered: the rules which regulate the execution of the any ward, of marital authority, of the right to
(a) An afflictive penalty, if it exceeds 1.2M pesos; penalties consisting in deprivation of liberty. manage his property, and of the right to dispose of
(b) A correctional penalty, if it does not exceed such property by any act or conveyance inter
1.2M pesos but is not less than 40,000 pesos; 3. SOCIAL DEFENSE As shown by its inflexible vivos.
severity to recidivist and habitual delinquents.
Divisible penalties- divided into three periods. Civil Interdiction shall deprive the offender during
(Minimun, medium and maximum), penalties are from 4. Complex crimes and special complex crimes the time of his sentence of the rights of:
Reclusion Temporal down to arresto menor; not (1) Parental authority
applicable when the penalty is indivisible pr prescribed In complex crimes, the offender has only one criminal (2) Guardianship, either as to the person or
by special law or a fine; those that have fixed duration. intent; one penalty must be imposed. The penalty to be property of the ward
applied is the penalty for the most serious crime, the (3) Marital authority
2. Memorize article 26 same to be applied in its maximum period. There are (4) The right to manage his property
two kinds of complex crimes, first is the compound (5) The right to dispose of such property by any
Article 26. When afflictive, correctional, or light penalty.- crime, it when a single act constitutes two or more act or any conveyance inter vivos (inter vivos,
a fine, whether imposed as a single or as an alternative grave or less grave felonies, second is the complex meaning between living persons)
penalty, shall be considered an afflictive penalty , if it crime proper, when an offense is a necessary means for
exceeds 1.2 million pesos; a correctional penalty, if it committing the other.
does not exceed 1.2 million pesos but is not less than 6. The penalty of perpetual or temporal absolute
40,000 pesos. Special complex crime on the other hand are disqualification for public office
component crimes constituting a single indivisible
3. 3 fold purpose of penalty offense, and are penalized under one article of the RPC. ARTICLE 30.Effects of the penalties of perpetual or
Example: art. 294 provides for robbery with homicide as temporary absolute disqualification. – The penalties
Three-fold purpose of penalty under the RPC: a single offense. of perpetual or temporary absolute disqualification
for public office shall produce the following effects:
1. RETRIBUTION OR EXPIATION The penalty is 5. Effects of civil interdiction 1. The deprivation of the public offices and
commensurate with the gravity of the offense. It employments which the offender may have held,
3. When the commission of the act is attended by Penalties that are either principal or accessory:
some mitigating circumstances and there is no 3. One aggravating: (but regardless of the number Perpetual or temporary absolute disqualification
aggravating circumstance, the lesser penalty shall be of aggravating circumstances, the courts cannot Perpetual or temporary special disqualification
applied. exceed the penalty provided by law in its maximum Suspension These may be principal or accessory
period): MAXIMUM PERIOD penalties, because they are formed in the 2 general
4. When both mitigating and aggravating classes. (Asked 3 times in the Bar Exams)
circumstances attended the commission of the act, 4. Mitigating and aggravating circumstances present:
the court shall reasonably allow them to offset one to offset each other according to relative weight 16. Additional penalty to public officers who are
another in consider ation of their number and guilty of a grave felony
importance, for the purpose of applying the penalty 5. Two or more mitigating and no aggravating: one
in accordance with the preceding rules, according to degree lower (has the effect of a privileged Absolute perpetual disqualification, if principal offender
the result of such compensation. mitigating circumstance) is guilty of a grave felony
Rules for the application of indivisible penalties: NOTE: Art. 64 does not apply to: 17. Payment of fine in relation to article 247
1) Penalty is single and indivisible 1) indivisible penalties Main consideration: wealth and means of the culprit
40. Can a penal action be extinguished after the 43. Can rebellion now be complexed with other
institution of criminal action? common crimes
Rebellion cannot be complexed with other crimes,
such as murder and arson. Rebellion itself would
include and absorb the said crimes; The charged of
complex rebellion with murder and multiple
frustrated murders is to be read as simple
rebellion. Murders, arson and robbery are mere
ingredient of the crime of rebellion (people v.
Hernandez; Enrile v Salazar).