Article 37Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 37

Costs-What are included.-Costs shall include fees and indemnities in the course of the judicial proceedings, whether they be fixed or unalterable amounts previously determined by law or regulations in force, or amounts not subject to schedule.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

Article

297.

Attempted

and

frustrated

robbery

committed under certain circumstances. - When by

reason or on occasion of an attempted or frustrated

robbery a homicide is committed, the person guilty of

such offenses shall be punished by reclusion temporal in

its maximum period to reclusion perpetua, unless the

homicide

committed

shall deserve a higher penalty

under the provisions of this Code.

Article 298. Execution of deeds by means of violence or

intimidation. - Any person who, with intent to defraud

another, by means of violence or intimidation, shall

compel

him

to

sign,

execute

or

deliver any public

instrument or documents, shall be held guilty of robbery

and punished by the penalties respectively prescribed in

this Chapter.

Section Two. - Robbery by the use of force upon things

Article 299. Robbery in an inhabited house or public

building or edifice devoted to worship. - Any armed

person who shall commit robbery in an inhabited house

or public building or edifice devoted to religious worship,

shall be punished by reclusion temporal, if the value of

the property taken shall exceed Fifty thousand pesos

(P50,000), and if:

(a) The malefactors shall enter the house or building in

which the robbery was

committed, by any of the following means:

1. Through a opening not intended for entrance or egress.

2. By breaking any wall, roof, or floor or breaking any door

or window.

3. By using false keys, picklocks or similar tools.

4. By using any fictitious name or pretending the exercise

of public authority.

Or if -

(b) The robbery be committed under any of the following

circumstances:

1. By the breaking of doors, wardrobes, chests, or any

other kind of locked or sealed furniture or receptacle;

2. By taking such furniture or objects to be broken or

forced open outside the place of the robbery.

When the offenders do not carry arms, and the value of

the

property

taken

exceeds

Fifty

thousand

pesos

(P50,000), the penalty next lower in degree shall be

imposed.

The same rule shall be applied when the offenders are

armed, but the value of the property taken does not

exceed Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000).

When said offenders do not carry arms and the value of

the property taken does not exceed Fifty thousand pesos

(P50,000), they shall suffer the penalty prescribed in the

two next preceding paragraphs, in its minimum period.

If the robbery be committed in one of the dependencies

of

an

inhabited

house,

public

building,

or building

dedicated to religious worship, the penalties next lower in

degree than those prescribed in this article shall be

imposed.

Article 300. Robbery in an uninhabited place and by a

band. - The robbery mentioned in the next preceding

article, if committed in an uninhabited place and by a

band, shall be punished by the maximum period of the

penalty provided therefor.

Article 301. What is an inhabited house, public building

or building dedicated to religious worship and their

dependencies. - Inhabited house means any shelter, ship

or

vessel

constituting the dwelling of one or more

persons,

even

though

the

inhabitants

thereof

shall

temporarily be absent therefrom when the robbery is

committed.

All interior courts, corrals, waterhouses, granaries, barns,

coach-houses, stables or other departments or inclosed

places contiguous to the building or edifice, having an

interior entrance connected therewith, and which form

part of the whole, shall be deemed dependencies of an

inhabited house, public building or building dedicated to

religious worship.

Orchards

and

other

lands

used

for

cultivation

or

production are not included in the terms of the next

preceding paragraph, even if closed, contiguous to the

building and having direct connection therewith.

The term "public building" includes every building owned

by the Government or belonging to a private person not

included used or rented by the Government, although

temporarily unoccupied by the same.

Article 302. Robbery is an uninhabited place or in a

private

building.

-

Any

robbery

committed

in

an

uninhabited place or in a building other than those

mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 299, if the

value of the property taken exceeds Fifty thousand pesos

(P50,000), shall be punished by prision correccional if any

of the following circumstances is present:

1. If the entrance has been effected through any opening

not intended for entrance or egress.

2. If any wall, roof, flour or outside door or window has

been broken.

3. If the entrance has been effected through the use of

false keys, picklocks or other similar tools.

4. If any dorm, wardrobe, chest or by sealed or closed

furniture or receptacle has been broken.

5. If any closed or sealed receptacle, as mentioned in the

preceding paragraph, has been removed even if the same

to broken open elsewhere.

When the value of the property takes does not exceed

Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000), the penalty next lower in

degree shall be imposed.

In the cases specified in Articles 294, 295, 297, 299, 300,

and 302 of this Code, when the property taken is mail

matter

or large cattle, the offender shall suffer the

penalties next higher in degree than those provided in

said articles.

Article 303. Robbery of cereals, fruits, or firewood in an

uninhabited place or private building. - In the cases

enumerated in Articles 299 and 302, when the robbery

consists in the taking of cereals, fruits, or firewood, the

culprit shall suffer the penalty next lower in degree than

that prescribed in said articles.

Article 304. Possession of picklocks or similar tools. - Any

person

who

shall

without lawful cause have in his

possession picklocks or similar tools especially adopted to

the

commission

of

the

crime

of

robbery,

shall

be

punished by arresto mayor in its maximum period to

prision correccional in its minimum period.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any person who

shall make such tools. If the offender be a locksmith, he

shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its

medium and maximum periods.

Article 305. False keys. - The term "false keys" shall be

deemed to include:

1. The tools mentioned in the next preceding articles.

2. Genuine keys stolen from the owner.

3. Any keys other than those intended by the owner for

use in the lock forcibly opened by the offender.

Chapter Two BRIGANDAGE

Article 306. Who are brigands; Penalty. - When more

than three armed persons form a band of robbers for the

purpose

of

committing

robbery

in

the

highway, or

kidnapping persons for the purpose of extortion or to

obtain ransom or for any other purpose to be attained by

means of force and violence, they shall be deemed

highway robbers or brigands.

Persons found guilty of this offense shall be punished by

prision mayor in its medium period to reclusion temporal

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