A. Justifying
Aggravating
1) Self-defense
2) Defense of relatives
3) Defense of stranger
4) Avoidance of greater evil OR
state of necessity
5) Fulfillment of duty OR lawful
exercise of a right or office
6) Obedience to an order issued for
some lawful purpose
B. Exempting
1) Imbecility/ insanity
2) Minority
3) Accident
4) Compulsion of irresistible force
5) Impulse of uncontrollable fear
6) Insuperable cause
C. Mitigating
1) Incomplete justification and
exemption
2) Under 18 or over 70
3) No intent to commit so grave a
wrong
4) Sufficient provocation or threat
5) Immediate vindication of a
graver offense
6) Passion or obfuscation
7) Voluntary surrender/ Voluntary
plea of guilt/ Plea to a lower
offense
8) Physical defect
9) Illness
10) Analogous circumstances
D.
1) Taking advantage of public office
2) In contempt of OR with insult to
PA
3) With insult OR lack of regard due
to offended party by reason of
RAS; Dwelling
4) Abuse of confidence AND
obvious ungratefulness
5) Crime in palace OR in presence
of the CE
6) Nightime; Uninhabited place;
with a band
7) On occasion of a calamity
8) Aid of armed men OR means to
ensure impunity
9) Recidivism
10) Reiteration or habituality
11) Price, reward OR promise
12) Inundation, fire, poison, etc
13) EPM
14) Craft, fraud OR disguise
15) Superior strength OR means to
weaken defense
16) Treachery
17) Ignominy
18) Unlawful entry (that the crime
be committed after an unlawful
entry)
19) Breaking wall, floor, roof (“that
as a means to the commission of
a crime, a wall, roof, door, floor,
or window, be broken”)
20) With aid of persons under 15 OR
by motor vehicle, airships, or
similar means
21) Cruelty
E. Alternative
1) Relationship
2) Intoxication
3) Degree of instruction and
education of offender