Section 30Sec./Art. 30

Article 180 of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Art. 180. False testimony against a defendant. - Any person who shall give false testimony against the defendant in any criminal case shall suffer:

"1. The penalty of reclusion temporal, if the defendant in said case shall have been sentenced to death;

"2. The penalty of prisión mayor, if the defendant shall have been sentenced to reclusion temporal or reclusion perpetua;

"3. The penalty of prisión correccional, if the defendant shall have been sentenced to any other afflictive penalty; and

"4. The penalty of arresto mayor, if the defendant shall have been sentenced to a correctional penalty or a fine, or shall have been acquitted.

"In cases provided in subdivisions 3 and 4 of this article the offender shall further a fine not to exceed Two hundred thousand pesos (₱200,000)."