Article 36Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 36

Pardon; its effects.-A pardon shall not work the restoration of the right to hold public office, or the right of suffrage, unless such rights be expressly restored by the terms of the pardon.

A pardon shall in no case exempt the culprit from the payment of the civil indemnity imposed upon him by the sentence.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

penalty

next

higher

in

degree

shall

be

imposed.

(Republic Act No. 7890, [February 20, 1995])

Article 287. Light coercions. - Any person who, by means

of violence, shall seize anything belonging to his debtor

for the purpose of applying the same to the payment of

the debt, shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor in its

minimum period and a fine equivalent to the value of the

thing, but in no case less than Fifteen thousand pesos

(P15,000).

Any other coercions or unjust vexations shall be punished

by arresto menor or a fine ranging from One thousand

pesos (P1,000) to Forty thousand pesos (P40,000), or both.

Article

288.

Other

similar

coercions;

(Compulsory

purchase of merchandise and payment of wages by

means of tokens.) - The penalty of arresto mayor or a fine

ranging from Forty thousand pesos (P40,000) to One

hundred thousand pesos (P100,000), or both, shall be

imposed

upon

any person, agent or officer, of any

association or corporation who shall force or compel,

directly or indirectly, or shall knowingly permit any laborer

or

employee employed by him or by such firm or

corporation

to be forced or compelled, to purchase

merchandise or commodities of any kind.

The same penalties shall be imposed upon any person

who shall pay the wages due a laborer or employee

employed by him, by means of tokens or objects other

than the legal tender currency of the laborer or employee.

Article 289. Formation, maintenance and prohibition of

combination of capital or labor through violence or

threats. - The penalty of arresto mayor and a fine not

exceeding

Sixty

thousand

pesos

(P60,000)

shall

be

imposed upon any person who, for the purpose of

organizing,

maintaining

or

preventing

coalitions

or

capital

or

labor,

strike

of

laborers

or

lock-out

of

employees, shall employ violence or threats in such a

degree as to compel or force the laborers or employers in

the free and legal exercise of their industry or work, if the

act

shall

not

constitute

a

more

serious

offense

in

accordance with the provisions of this Code.

Chapter Three DISCOVERY AND REVELATION OF

SECRETS

Article

290.

Discovering

secrets

through

seizure

of

correspondence. - The penalty of prision correccional in

its

minimum

and

medium

periods

and a fine not

exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000) shall

be imposed upon any private individual who in order to

discover the secrets of another, shall seize his papers or

letters and reveal the contents thereof.

If the offender shall not reveal such secrets, the penalty

shall be arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding One

hundred thousand pesos (P100,000).

The

provision

shall

not

be

applicable

to

parents,

guardians, or persons entrusted with the custody of

minors with respect to the papers or letters of the

children or minors placed under their care or study, nor to

spouses with respect to the papers or letters of either of

them.

Article 291. Revealing secrets with abuse of office. - The

penalty of arresto mayor and a fine not exceeding One

hundred thousand pesos (P100,000) shall be imposed

upon any manager, employee, or servant who, in such

capacity, shall learn the secrets of his principal or master

and shall reveal such secrets.

Article 292. Revelation of industrial secrets. - The penalty

of prision correccional in its minimum and medium

periods and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand

pesos (P100,000) shall be imposed upon the person in

charge, employee or workman of any manufacturing or

industrial establishment who, to the prejudice of the

owner thereof, shall reveal the secrets of the industry of

the latter.

Title Ten CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY

Chapter One ROBBERY IN GENERAL

Article 293. Who are guilty of robbery. - Any person who,

with intent to gain, shall take any personal property

belonging

to

another,

by

means

of

violence

or

intimidation of any person, or using force upon anything

shall be guilty of robbery.

Section One. - Robbery with violence or intimidation of

persons.

Article

294.

Robbery

with

violence

against

or

intimidation of persons; Penalties. - Any person guilty of

robbery with the use of violence against or intimidation of

any person shall suffer:

1. The penalty of reclusion perpetua to death, when by

reason or on occasion of the robbery, the crime of

homicide

shall

have

been committed, or when the

robbery

shall

have

been

accompanied

by

rape

or

intentional mutilation or arson.

2. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium period

to reclusion perpetua , when or if by reason or on occasion

of such robbery, any of the physical injuries penalized in

subdivision 1 of Article 263 shall have been inflicted.

3. The penalty of reclusion temporal , when by reason or

on occasion of the robbery, any of the physical injuries

penalized in subdivision 2 of the article mentioned in the

next preceding paragraph, shall have been inflicted.

4. The penalty of prision mayor in its maximum period to

reclusion temporal in its medium period, if the violence or

intimidation employed in the commission of the robbery

shall have been carried to a degree clearly unnecessary

for the commission of the crime, or when in the course of

its execution, the offender shall have inflicted upon any

person not responsible for its commission any of the

physical injuries covered by subdivisions 3 and 4 of said

Article 263.

5. The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum

period to prision mayor in its medium period in other

cases.

(as amended by Republic Act No. 7659, [December 13,

1993])

Article 295. Robbery with physical injuries, committed in

an uninhabited place and by a band, or with the use of

firearm on a street, road or alley. - If the offenses

mentioned in subdivisions three, four, and five of the next

preceding

article

shall

have

been committed in an

uninhabited place or by a band, or by attacking a moving

train, street car, motor vehicle or airship, or by entering

the passenger's compartments in a train or, in any

manner, taking the passengers thereof by surprise in the

respective conveyances, or on a street, road, highway, or

alley, and the intimidation is made with the use of a

firearm, the offender shall be punished by the maximum

period of the proper penalties.

In the same cases, the penalty next higher in degree shall

be imposed upon the leader of the band.

Article 296. Definition of a band and penalty incurred by

the members thereof. - When more than three armed

malefactors take part in the commission of a robbery, it

shall be deemed to have been committed by a band.

When any of the arms used in the commission of the

offense be an unlicensed firearm, the penalty to be

imposed upon all the malefactors shall be the maximum

of the corresponding penalty provided by law, without

prejudice of the criminal liability for illegal possession of

such unlicensed firearms.

Any member of a band who is present at the commission

of a robbery by the band, shall be punished as principal of

any of the assaults committed by the band, unless it be

shown that he attempted to prevent the same.

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