Article 32Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 32

Effects of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special disqualification for the exercise of the right of suffrage.-The perpetual or temporary special disqualification for the exercise of the right of suffrage shall deprive the offender perpetually or during the term of the sentence, according to the nature of said penalty, of the right to vote in any popular election for any public office or to be elected to such office. Moreover, the offender shall not be permitted to hold any public office during the period of his disqualification.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

Article 251. Death caused in a tumultuous affray. -

When, while several persons, not composing groups

organized for the common purpose of assaulting and

attacking each other reciprocally, quarrel and assault

each other in a confused and tumultuous manner, and in

the course of the affray someone is killed, and it cannot

be ascertained who actually killed the deceased, but the

person or persons who inflicted serious physical injuries

can

be

identified,

such person or persons shall be

punished by prision mayor.

If it cannot be determined who inflicted the serious

physical injuries on the deceased, the penalty of prision

correccional in its medium and maximum periods shall

be imposed upon all those who shall have used violence

upon the person of the victim.

Article 252. Physical injuries inflicted in a tumultuous

affray. - When in a tumultuous affray as referred to in the

preceding

article,

only

serious

physical

injuries

are

inflicted upon the participants thereof and the person

responsible thereof cannot be identified, all those who

appear to have used violence upon the person of the

offended party shall suffer the penalty next lower in

degree than that provided for the physical injuries so

inflicted.

When the physical injuries inflicted are of a less serious

nature and the person responsible therefor cannot be

identified, all those who appear to have used any violence

upon the person of the offended party shall be punished

by arresto mayor from five to fifteen days.

Article 253. Giving assistance to suicide. - Any person

who shall assist another to commit suicide shall suffer the

penalty

of

prision

mayor;

if

such

person

leads

his

assistance to another to the extent of doing the killing

himself, he shall suffer the penalty of reclusion temporal.

However, if the suicide is not consummated, the penalty

of arresto mayor in its medium and maximum periods,

shall be imposed.

Article 254. Discharge of firearms. - Any person who shall

shoot at another with any firearm shall suffer the penalty

of prision correccional in its minimum and medium

periods, unless the facts of the case are such that the act

can

be

held

to

constitute

frustrated

or

attempted

parricide, murder, homicide or any other crime for which

a higher penalty is prescribed by any of the articles of this

Code.

Section Two. - Infanticide and abortion.

Article

255.

Infanticide.

-

The

penalty

provided

for

parricide in Article 246 and for murder in Article 248 shall

be imposed upon any person who shall kill any child less

than three days of age.

If the crime penalized in this article be committed by the

mother of the child for the purpose of concealing her

dishonor, she shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor in

its medium and maximum periods, and if said crime be

committed

for

the

same

purpose

by

the

maternal

grandparents or either of them, the penalty shall be

reclusion temporal . (as amended by Republic Act No.

7659, [December 13, 1993])

Article 256. Intentional abortion. - Any person who shall

intentionally cause an abortion shall suffer:

1. The penalty of reclusion temporal, if he shall use any

violence upon the person of the pregnant woman.

2. The penalty of prision mayor if, without using violence,

he shall act without the consent of the woman.

3. The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and

maximum periods, if the woman shall have consented.

Article 257. Unintentional abortion. - The penalty of

prision correccional in its minimum and medium period

shall be imposed upon any person who shall cause an

abortion by violence, but unintentionally.

Article 258. Abortion practiced by the woman herself of

by her parents. - The penalty of prision correccional in its

medium and maximum periods shall be imposed upon a

woman who shall practice abortion upon herself or shall

consent that any other person should do so.

Any woman who shall commit this offense to conceal her

dishonor, shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in

its minimum and medium periods.

If this crime be committed by the parents of the pregnant

woman or either of them, and they act with the consent

of

said

woman

for

the

purpose

of

concealing

her

dishonor, the offenders shall suffer the penalty of prision

correccional in its medium and maximum periods.

Article 259. Abortion practiced by a physician or midwife

and dispensing of abortives. - The penalties provided in

Article 256 shall be imposed in its maximum period,

respectively, upon any physician or midwife who, taking

advantage of their scientific knowledge or skill, shall

cause an abortion or assist in causing the same.

Any pharmacist who, without the proper prescription

from a physician, shall dispense any abortive shall suffer

arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding One hundred

thousand pesos (P100,000).

Section Three. - Duel

Article 260. Responsibility of participants in a duel. - The

penalty of reclusion temporal shall be imposed upon any

person who shall kill his adversary in a duel.

If he shall inflict upon the latter physical injuries only, he

shall suffer the penalty provided therefor, according to

their nature.

In any other case, the combatants shall suffer the penalty

of arresto mayor , although no physical injuries have been

inflicted.

The

seconds

shall

in

all

events

be

punished

as

accomplices.

Article 261. Challenging to a duel. - The penalty of prision

correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed

upon any person who shall challenge another, or incite

another to give or accept a challenge to a duel, or shall

scoff at or decry another publicly for having refused to

accept a challenge to fight a duel.

Chapter Two PHYSICAL INJURIES

Article

262.

Mutilation.

-

The

penalty

of

reclusion

temporal to reclusion perpetua shall be imposed upon

any person who shall intentionally mutilate another by

depriving him, either totally or partially, or some essential

organ of reproduction.

Any other intentional mutilation shall be punished by

prision mayor in its medium and maximum periods.

Article 263. Serious physical injuries. - Any person who

shall wound, beat, or assault another, shall be guilty of the

crime of serious physical injuries and shall suffer:

1. The penalty of prision mayor, if in consequence of the

physical injuries inflicted, the injured person shall become

insane, imbecile, impotent, or blind;

2. The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and

maximum periods, if in consequence of the physical

injuries inflicted, the 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 arm, or a leg or shall have

lost the use of any such member, or shall have become

incapacitated for the work in which he was therefor

habitually engaged;

3. The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum and

medium

periods,

if

in

consequence of the physical

injuries inflicted, the person injured shall have become

deformed, or shall have lost any other part of his body, or

shall have lost the use thereof, or shall have been ill or

incapacitated for the performance of the work in which

he as habitually engaged for a period of more than ninety

days;

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