Article 19Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 19

Accessories.-Accessories are those who, having knowledge of the commission of the crime, and without having participated therein, either as principals or accomplices, take part subsequent to its commission in any of the following manners:

1. By profiting themselves or assisting the offenders to profit by the effects of the crime.

2. By concealing or destroying the body of the crime, or the effects or instruments thereof, in order to prevent its discovery.

3. By harboring, concealing, or assisting in the escape of the principal of the crime, provided the accessory acts with abuse of his public functions or Whenever the author of the crime is guilty of treason, parricide, murder, or an attempt to take the life of the Chief Executive, or is known to be habitually guilty of some other crime.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

Title Two CRIMES AGAINST THE

FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE STATE

Chapter One ARBITRARY DETENTION OR

EXPULSION, VIOLATION OF DWELLING,

PROHIBITION, INTERRUPTION, AND DISSOLUTION

OF PEACEFUL MEETINGS AND CRIMES AGAINST

RELIGIOUS WORSHIP

Section One. - Arbitrary detention and expulsion

Article 124. Arbitrary detention. - Any public officer or

employee who, without legal grounds, detains a person,

shall suffer;

1. The penalty of arresto mayor in its maximum period to

prision

correccional

in

its

minimum

period,

if

the

detention has not exceeded three days;

2. The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and

maximum periods, if the detention has continued more

than three but not more than fifteen days;

3. The penalty of prision mayor, if the detention has

continued for more than fifteen days but not more than

six months; and

4. That of reclusion temporal, if the detention shall have

exceeded six months.

The commission of a crime, or violent insanity or any

other ailment requiring the compulsory confinement of

the

patient

in

a hospital, shall be considered legal

grounds for the detention of any person.

Article 125. Delay in the delivery of detained persons to

the proper judicial authorities. - The penalties provided in

the next preceding article shall be imposed upon the

public officer or employee who shall detain any person

for some legal ground and shall fail to deliver such person

to the proper judicial authorities within the period of;

twelve (12) hours, for crimes or offenses punishable by

light penalties, or their equivalent; eighteen (18) hours, for

crimes or offenses punishable by correctional penalties,

or their equivalent and thirty-six (36) hours, for crimes, or

offenses punishable by afflictive or capital penalties, or

their equivalent. In every case, the person detained shall

be informed of the cause of his detention and shall be

allowed upon his request, to communicate and confer at

any time with his attorney or counsel. (As amended by

E.O. Nos. 59 and 272, Nov. 7, 1986 and July 25, 1987,

respectively).

Article 126. Delaying release. - The penalties provided for

in Article 124 shall be imposed upon any public officer or

employee who delays for the period of time specified

therein the performance of any judicial or executive order

for the release of a prisoner or detention prisoner, or

unduly delays the service of the notice of such order to

said prisoner or the proceedings upon any petition for the

liberation of such person.

Article 127. Expulsion. - The penalty of prision correccional

shall be imposed upon any public officer or employee

who, not being thereunto authorized by law, shall expel

any person from the Philippine Islands or shall compel

such person to change his residence.

Section Two. - Violation of domicile

Article 128. Violation of domicile. - The penalty of prision

correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed

upon any public officer or employee who, not being

authorized by judicial order, shall enter any dwelling

against the will of the owner thereof, search papers or

other effects found therein without the previous consent

of such owner, or having surreptitiously entered said

dwelling, and being required to leave the premises, shall

refuse to do so.

If the offense be committed in the night-time, or if any

papers or effects not constituting evidence of a crime be

not returned immediately after the search made by the

offender, the penalty shall be prision correccional in its

medium and maximum periods.

Article 129. Search warrants maliciously obtained and

abuse in the service of those legally obtained. - In

addition to the liability attaching to the offender for the

commission of any other offense, the penalty of arresto

mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its

minimum period and a fine not exceeding Two hundred

thousand pesos (P200,000) shall be imposed upon any

public officer or employee who shall procure a search

warrant without just cause, or, having legally procured

the same, shall exceed his authority or use unnecessary

severity in executing the same.

Article 130. Searching domicile without witnesses. - The

penalty of arresto mayor in its medium and maximum

periods

shall

be

imposed

upon

a

public officer or

employee who, in cases where a search is proper, shall

search the domicile, papers or other belongings of any

person, in the absence of the latter, any member of his

family, or in their default, without the presence of two

witnesses residing in the same locality.

Section Three. - Prohibition, interruption and dissolution of

peaceful meetings

Article 131. Prohibition, interruption and dissolution of

peaceful meetings. - The penalty of prision correccional in

its minimum period shall be imposed upon any public

officer or employee who, without legal ground, shall

prohibit or interrupt the holding of a peaceful meeting, or

shall dissolve the same.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon a public officer

or employee who shall hinder any person from joining

any

lawful association or from attending any of its

meetings.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any public

officer or employee who shall prohibit or hinder any

person from addressing, either alone or together with

others, any petition to the authorities for the correction of

abuses or redress of grievances.

Section Four. - Crimes against religious worship

Article 132. Interruption of religious worship. - The penalty

of prision correccional in its minimum period shall be

imposed upon any public officer or employee who shall

prevent or disturb the ceremonies or manifestations of

any religion.

If the crime shall have been committed with violence or

threats, the penalty shall be prision correccional in its

medium and maximum periods.

Article 133. Offending the religious feelings. - The penalty

of arresto mayor in its maximum period to prision

correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed

upon anyone who, in a place devoted to religious worship

or during the celebration of any religious ceremony shall

perform acts notoriously offensive to the feelings of the

faithful.

Title Three CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Chapter One REBELLION, SEDITION AND

DISLOYALTY

Article 134. Rebellion or insurrection; How committed. -

The crime of rebellion or insurrection is committed by

rising publicly and taking arms against the Government

for the purpose of removing from the allegiance to said

Government or its laws, the territory of the Philippine

Islands or any part thereof, of any body of land, naval or

other armed forces, depriving the Chief Executive or the

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