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CRIMINAL LAW 1
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  • 1. In case of the conviction of the accused, who will pay the cost of the proceedings.
A) The winning party
B) Accused
C) Relative of the accused
D) The state
  • 2. If the property of the accused is not sufficient for the payment of all the pecuniary liabilities, which will be given the first priority to be paid?
A) The indemnification of the consequential damages
B) The reparation of damage caused
C) The fine
D) The cost of the proceedings
  • 3. What is the equivalent rate of the subsidiary personal liability if the accused has no property with which to pay the fine in the decision of the court.
A) One day for each Fifteen Pesos
B) One day for each 8 pesos
C) One day of each Ten Pesos
D) One day for each twenty Pesos
  • 4. If the accused was prosecuted for grave or less grave felony and the principal penalty imposed is only a fine, how long shall be the subsidiary imprisonment of the accused.
A) Five months
B) Six months
C) Four months
D) Three months
  • 5. If the accused was prosecuted for light felonies only, and the principal penalty is only fine, how long shall be the subsidiary imprisonment of the accused.
A) 6 days
B) 12 days
C) 15 days
D) 10 days
  • 6. It is a subsidiary personal liability to be suffered by the convict who has no property with which to meet the fine.
A) Correctional penalty
B) Administrative penalty
C) Subsidiary penalty
D) Pecuniary penalty
  • 7. What is the accessory penalty of reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal.
A) No accesorry penalty
B) Civil interdiction for life
C) Suspension of the right of suffrage
D) Suspension of the right to hold office.
  • 8. What is the accessory penalty of Destierro.
A) Suspension of the right to suffrage
B) Civil interdiction for life
C) No accessory penalty
D) Suspension from public office, profession or calling
  • 9. Every penalty imposed for the commission of a felony shall carry with it the ___________ of the proceeds of the crime and the instruments or tools with which it was committed.
A) Removal
B) Destruction
C) Auction
D) Forfeiture
  • 10. The proceeds and instruments or tools of the crime shall be taken in favor of the __________.
A) Third party
B) Government
C) Accused
D) Victim
  • 11. When can confiscation of the proceeds or property or instruments of the crimes be ordered by the court.
A) When it is owned by the victim
B) When it is owned by the accused
C) When it is not placed at the disposal of the court
D) When it submitted its evidence
  • 12. Articles which are forfeited, when the order of forfeiture is already final cannot be returned even in case of an __________
A) Acquittal
B) Revival of the case
C) Appeal
D) Refilling of the case
  • 13. The penalty prescribed by law for the commission of a felony shall be imposed upon the _______ in the commission of the felony.
A) Accesorries
B) Principals
C) Co-accused
D) Accomplices
  • 14. It is the penalty which cannot be imposed when the guilty party is more than seventy years of age.
A) Reclusion perpetua
B) Prison correctional
C) Death penalty
D) Prison mayor
  • 15. A single out act constitute two or more grave or less grave felonies is a ____________ crime.
A) Grave complex
B) Less grave
C) Complex crime
D) Continuing crime
  • 16. In defense of relatives, one of the relatives that can be defended are those relatives by consanguinity within the fourth civil degree, such as _____________.
A) Uncle and niece
B) Brother and sister
C) Second cousin
D) First cousin
  • 17. When somebody defended a very distant relative, he is committing ________.
A) Self
B) Fullfilment of duty
C) Defense of relative
D) Defense of stranger
  • 18. A person considered as _________ is exempt in all cases from criminal liability.
A) Imbecile
B) Insane
C) Feebleminded
D) Epileptic
  • 19. During this lucid interval, an insane person acts with _________.
A) Emotion
B) Anxiety
C) Depression
D) Intelligence
  • 20. It is the __________ who has the burden of proof to show insanity.
A) Court
B) Prosecutor
C) Prosecution
D) Defense
  • 21. It is a single crime, consisting of a series of acts but all arising from one criminal resolution.
A) Continuing crime
B) Revolving crime
C) Habitual crime
D) Plural crime
  • 22. A person shall be deemed to be ________ if within a period of ten years from the date of his release or last conviction of the crimes of serious or less serious physical injuries, estafa, or falsification, he is found guilty of any of said crimes a third time or oftener.
A) Habitual delinquent
B) Recidivist
C) Ex-convict
D) Pardonee
  • 23. In imposing fines, the court may fix any amount within the limits established by law; in fixing the amount in each case attention shall be given, not only to the mitigating and aggravating circumstances, but more particularly to the ________ of the defendant.
A) Age
B) Education
C) Health
D) Wealth and means
  • 24. Whenever any prisoner shall have served the ________ penalty imposed on him, it shall appear to the Board of Indeterminate Sentence that such prisoner is fitted for release, said Board may authorize the release of such prisoner on parole, upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Board.
A) Maximum
B) Light
C) Medium
D) Minimum
  • 25. It is the disposition under which a defendant after conviction and sentence is released subject to conditions imposed by the court and to the supervision of a probation officer.
A) Recognition
B) Parole
C) Probation
D) Pardon
  • 26. A person placed on probation.
A) Probationer
B) Parolee
C) Pardonee
D) Ex-convict
  • 27. One who investigate for the court a referral for probation or supervises a probationer or both
A) Parole officer
B) Probation officer
C) Police officer
D) Administrative officer
  • 28. No penalty shall be executed except by virtue of a _________ judgment.
A) Temporary
B) In terim
C) Final
D) De jure
  • 29. When a convict becomes insane or imbecile after final sentence has been pronounced, the execution of said sentence is __________ only as regards the personal penalty.
A) Extinct
B) Continued
C) Suspended
D) Enforce
  • 30. If the convict becomes insane or imbecile after the final sentence, the payment of his ________ shall not be suspended.
A) Civil or pecuniary liabilities
B) Criminal liability
C) Personal liability
D) Administrative liability
  • 31. Whenever a minor or either sex under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of a grave or less grave felony, is accused thereof, the court, after hearing the evidence in the proper proceedings, instead of pronouncing judgment of conviction, shall ___________ all further proceedings and shall commit such minor to the custody and care of a public or private charitable institution.
A) Proceed
B) Prolong
C) Suspend
D) Set aside
  • 32. If the minor has behaved properly or has complied with the conditions imposed upon him during his confinement, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 80 he shall be returned to the ____________ in order that the same may order his final release.
A) DSWD
B) Court
C) Relative/Guardian
D) Parents
  • 33. In case the minor fails to behave properly or to comply with the regulations of the institution to which he was committed, or he was found to be incorrigible he shall be returned to the court in order that the same may _________ corresponding to the crime committed by him.
A) Render the judgement
B) Order his rehabilitation
C) Order extension of his commitment
D) Order his release
  • 34. The expenses for the maintenance of the minor delinquent confined in the institution to which he has been committed, shall be borne totally or partially by _________ or those persons liable to support him, if they are able to do so in the discretion of the court.
A) DSWD
B) State
C) Institution
D) Parents or relatives
  • 35. Under the new law, the age of majority is ___________.
A) 13 years old
B) 15 years old
C) 21 years old
D) 18 years old
  • 36. Any person sentenced to ___________ shall not be permitted to enter the place or places designated in the sentenced, nor within the radius therein specified.
A) Destierro
B) Arresto menor
C) Prison mayor
D) Arresto mayor
  • 37. The radius specified in the penalty of destierro shall be _____________.
A) Not less than 20 kms. But not more than 225 kms.
B) Not less than 25kms. But not more than 200 kms.
C) Not less than 5 kms. But not more than 125 kms.
D) Not less than 25 kms. But not more than 250 kms.
  • 38. The penalty of ____________ shall be served in the municipal jail or in the house of the defendant under the surveillance of an officer of the law.
A) Prison correctional
B) Prison mayor
C) Arresto mayor
D) Arresto menor
  • 39. As the personal penalties, criminal liability of the accused is totally extinguished upon his _________.
A) Confinement
B) Incarceration
C) Conviction
D) Death
  • 40. The pecuniary liabilities of the convict is extinguished only when the death of the offender occurs _______.
A) During the hearing of the case
B) Before the final judgment
C) During the pendency of the case
D) After the final judgment
  • 41. It is not one of the grounds of extinction of criminal liability of the accused.
A) By prescription of the crime
B) By service of sentence
C) By voluntary surrender
D) By absolute pardon
  • 42. Amado was change with homicide during the pendency of the case Amado died what will happen to the Case filed against him.
A) The case will be dismissed.
B) The case will continue to be heared.
C) The case will set aside
D) The case will be suspended.
  • 43. Berto was sentenced in the regional trial court. He appealed the case to the court of appeals. During the pendency of his appeal, Berto died. What will happen to his civil and criminal liability?
A) The civil and criminal liability is not extinguished
B) The civil and environmental liability is extinguished
C) The civil and criminal liability is set a side.
D) The civil and criminal liability will be suspended.
  • 44. It is an act of grace proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws which the individual On whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime he has committed.
A) Parole
B) Priscription of crime
C) Priscription of penalty
D) Pardon
  • 45. It is the forfeiture or loss of the right of the state to prosecute the offender after the lapse of a certain time.
A) Pardon
B) Parole
C) Priscription of crime
D) Priscription of penalty
  • 46. It is the loss or forfeiture of the right of the government to execute the final sentence after the lapse of a certain Time.
A) Amnesty
B) Priscription of penalty
C) Parole
D) Priscription of criminal
  • 47. Crimes punishable by reclusion perpetua or reclusion temporal shall prescribed in _____
A) 15 years
B) 10 years
C) 12 years
D) 20 years
  • 48. Crimes punishable by other affective penalties shall prescribe in _____
A) 10 years
B) 20 years
C) 15 years
D) 5 years
  • 49. Crimes punishable b correctional penalty shall prescribed in _____
A) 10 years
B) 5 years
C) 15 years
D) 6 years
  • 50. The crime of libel on other similar offenses shall prescribed in _____
A) 1 year
B) 2 years
C) 10 years
D) 5 years
  • 51. The 0ffense of oral deformation and slander by deed shall prescribed in _____.
A) 6 years
B) 1 month
C) 1 year
D) 6 months
  • 52. In computing the period of ______ the first day is to be excluded and the last day included.
A) Conviction
B) Judgement
C) Confinement
D) Prescription
  • 53. The prescriptive period of offenses punishable under special laws and municipal and ordinances, such as offenses punished only by a fine or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both prescribed after ______.
A) 1 year
B) 8 years
C) 5 years
D) 4 years
  • 54. The term of prescription shall not run when the offender is _____.
A) Under rehab
B) Arrested
C) Absent from the Phil. Archipelago.
D) Confined
  • 55. The period of prescription of penalties shall commence to run from the date when the offender should _____ the service of this sentence.
A) Start serving
B) Evade
C) Interrupt
D) Commence
  • 56. It is a change of the decision of the court made by the Chief Executive by reducing the degree of the penalty inflicted upon the convict, or by decreasing the length of the imprisonment of the amount of the fine
A) Enforcement of sentence
B) Commutation of sentence
C) Suspension of sentence
D) Reprieve
  • 57. It is considered a contract between the sovereign power of the executive and the convict that the sovereign power will release convict upon compliance with the condition.
A) Conditional pardon
B) Reprieve
C) Probation
D) Amnesty
  • 58. Any person who has been granted conditional pardon shall incurr the obligation of _____ otherwise, his non compliance shall result in the revocation of the pardon.
A) Questioning the condition
B) Ignoring the condition
C) Evading the condition
D) Strictly complying the condition
  • 59. It is the prerogative of the Executive to extend this to the offender at any time after the imposition of the final judgment.
A) Parole
B) Reprieve
C) Conditional pardon
D) Probation
  • 60. It is an Executive clemency given to the convicted offender after the offender has served the minimum penalty through the Board of Pardons and Parole.
A) Probation
B) Parole
C) Amnesty
D) Pardon
  • 61. Every person criminally liable for a felony is also _____ liable.
A) Personally
B) Civily
C) Administratively
D) Socially
  • 62. It is one of the extinguishment o9f civil liability.
A) By compensation
B) Amnesty
C) Serving of sentence
D) Parole
  • 63. It is included in civil liability.
A) Reparation of the damage caused
B) Restitution
C) All of the above
D) Indemnification for damages consequential
  • 64. The civil liability for acts committed by a youthful offender shall be paid by the offenders _____.
A) Relatives
B) Parents
C) All of the above
D) Guardians
  • 65. A prisoner who showed good conduct inside the penal institution shall be allowed a deduction of his penalty for a period of _____ for each month of good behavior during the first two years of his imprisonment.
A) 15 days
B) 8 days
C) 10 days
D) 5 days
  • 66. During the 3rd to 5th year of his imprisonment the prisoner shall be allowed a deduction of _____ for each month of good behavior.
A) 5 days
B) 8 days
C) 15 days
D) 10 days
  • 67. During the 6th year until the tenth year, of his imprisonment, the prisoner shall be allowed a deduction of _____for each month of good behavior.
A) 8 days
B) 15 days
C) 10 days
D) 5 days
  • 68. During the eleventh and successive years of his imprisonment, the prisoner shall be allowed a deduction of _____ for each month of good behavior.
A) 10 days
B) 15 days
C) 8 days
D) 5 days
  • 69. Ana was charged with the crime of adultery together with his boyfriend. Ana, the married woman after conviction, her husband pardoned her alone is the pardon effective?
A) Yes because she was pardoned by her husband
B) No, the pardon should include the man to be effective.
C) No, because pardon can only be given by the Chief Executive
D) Yes, because it is voluntary given by the husband,
  • 70. When a single act constitute two or more grave or less grave felonies, or when an offense is necessary means for committing the other, the penalty for _____ shall be imposed in its maximum.
A) The less serious crime
B) The most serious crime
C) The light offense
D) The most common crime
  • 71. A legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial.
A) Special law
B) Criminal law
C) Bill of landing
D) Bill of attainder
  • 72. It is a branch or division of law which defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment.
A) Civil law
B) Criminal law
C) Political law
D) Remedial law
  • 73. It is not one of the sources of our Criminal Law.
A) Prosecution
B) Law enforcement
C) Community
D) Court
  • 74. A body of principles, usages and rule of action, which do not rest for their authority upon any express and positive declaration of the will of the legislature.
A) Administrative law
B) Criminal law
C) Civil law
D) Common law
  • 75. It means that as a rule, penal laws are enforceable only within the territory of thePhilippines,
A) Prospectivity Principle
B) Retroactivity Principle
C) Territoriality principle
D) Generality Principle
  • 76. According to the classical theory, it states that the purpose of the penalty is ___________
A) Pardon
B) Renumeration
C) Retribution
D) Revenge
  • 77. In self defense, the burden of proof rest upon the ____________
A) Relative
B) Accused
C) Victim
D) State
  • 78. In defense of relatives, one of the relatives that can be defended are those relatives by consanguinity within the fourth civil degree such as _________________
A) Brother and sister
B) Second cousin
C) First cousin
D) Mother and father
  • 79. Relationship by blood refers to relatives by _____________
A) Legislation
B) Consanguinity
C) Naturalization
D) Affinity
  • 80. As a rule, ______________ is mitigating in the crimes against property.
A) Relationship
B) Intoxication
C) Education
D) Sex
  • 81. It is a circumstances present in a crime where it may increase or decrease the criminal liability.
A) Alternative circumstances
B) Mitigating circumtances
C) Justifying circumatances
D) Exempting circumstances
  • 82. It is a kind of aggravating circumstance that changes the nature of the crime. Example treachery qualifies the killing of a person to murder
A) Generic aggravating
B) Inherent aggravating
C) Specific aggravating
D) Qualifying aggravating
  • 83. They are persons criminally liable due to their direct participation in the commission of the crime.
A) Co-accomplice
B) Principals
C) Accomplice
D) Accessories
  • 84. What is the accessory penalty of reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal.
A) Suspension
B) Civil interdiction for life
C) Aquitted
D) No penalty
  • 85. When somebody defended a very distant relative, he is committing ________.
A) Self defense
B) Defense of relativws
C) Defense of stranger
D) Defense of family
  • 86. During this lucid interval, an insane person acts with _________.
A) Intelligence
B) Sadness
C) Insane
D) Emotion
  • 87. It is the __________ who has the burden of proof to show insanity.
A) Court
B) Imbecile
C) Prosecutor
D) Defense
  • 88. It is the disposition under which a defendant after conviction and sentence is released subject to conditions imposed by the court and to the supervision of a probation officer.
A) Pardon
B) Probation
C) Parole
D) Recognition
  • 89. No penalty shall be executed except by virtue of a _________ judgment.
A) Final
B) Executory
C) Aquittal
D) Temporary
  • 90. Whenever a minor or either sex under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of a grave or less grave felony, is accused thereof, the court, after hearing the evidence in the proper proceedings, instead of pronouncing judgment of conviction, shall ___________ all further proceedings and shall commit such minor to the custody and care of a public or private charitable institution.
A) Prolong
B) Suspended
C) Proceed
D) Wait
  • 91. If the minor has behaved properly or has complied with the conditions imposed upon him during his confinement, in accordance with the provisions of Art. 80 he shall be returned to the ____________ in order that the same may order his final release.
A) Law Enforcement
B) Court
C) Prosecutor
D) DSWD
  • 92. In case the minor fails to behave properly or to comply with the regulations of the institution to which he was committed, or he was found to be incorrigible he shall be returned to the court in order that the same may _________ corresponding to the crime committed by him.
A) Order extension of his commitment
B) Render the judgement
C) Render reward
D) Order subpeona
  • 93. Any person sentenced to ___________ shall not be permitted to enter the place or places designated in the sentenced, nor within the radius therein specified.
A) Arresto mayor
B) Prison correctional
C) Confinement
D) Destierro
  • 94. The penalty of ____________ shall be served in the municipal jail or in the house of the defendant under the surveillance of an officer of the law.
A) Arresto mayor
B) Arresto menor
C) Prison mayor
D) Prison menor
  • 95. Amado was change with homicide during the pendency of the case Amado died what will happen to the Case filed against him.
A) Heard
B) Dismissed
C) Suspended
D) Waive
  • 96. It is the forfeiture or loss of the right of the state to prosecute the offender after the lapse of a certain time.
A) Prescription of crime
B) Parole
C) Release
D) Pardon
  • 97. Crimes punishable by reclusion perpetua or reclusion temporal shall prescribed in _____
A) 20 years
B) 15 years
C) 10 years
D) 3 years
  • 98. The crime of libel on other similar offenses shall prescribed in _____
A) 2 year
B) 3 year
C) 1 year
D) 4 year
  • 99. The prescriptive period of offenses punishable under special laws and municipal and ordinances, such as offenses punished only by a fine or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both prescribed after ______.
A) 10 years
B) 5 years
C) 3 years
D) 1 year
  • 100. The period of prescription of penalties shall commence to run from the date when the offender should _____ the service of this sentence.
A) Commence
B) Suspended
C) Interrupted
D) Evade
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