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(CLJ 5) CRIMINAL EVIDENCE
Contributed by: Ninge
  • 1. It consists of any reprehensible deed or word that offends public conscience.
A) Scandal
B) Disgrace
C) Indignity
D) Unjust vexation
  • 2. What is needed to be proven that scandalous circumstance is an element in the crime of concubinage.
A) If the mistress is kept outside the conjugal dwelling
B) If the mistress is a virgin
C) If the mistress is a relative
D) If the man is legally married
  • 3. It means dwelling together as husband and wife.
A) Cohabit
B) Joint household
C) Live-in
D) Marriage
  • 4. They should be objected to at the time they are being offered in court.
A) Oral evidence
B) Testimonial evidence
C) Expert evidence
D) Documentary evidence
  • 5. To appreciate the evidence,it is always a question of logic and experience.
A) Object evidence
B) Relevant evidence
C) Material evidence
D) Real evidence
  • 6. Evidence whose admission is prohibited by law.
A) Inadmissible evidence
B) Unreal evidence
C) Incompetent evidence
D) None of these
  • 7. Which among the following may be considered as subject requiring expert opinion.
A) Undeciphered writings
B) All of these
C) Forensic science
D) Medical science
  • 8. When it prompts the witness to give an answer the examiner wants to hear it is said to be:
A) Misleading question
B) Leading question
C) General question
D) Compound question
  • 9. What did you observe after they got married is an example of a
A) Leading question
B) Compound question
C) General question
D) Misleading question
  • 10. A question which is made up to two or more queries connected by conjunctions and or.
A) General question
B) Compound question
C) Leading question
D) Misleading question
  • 11. The following are the criteria used to determine whether or not a child regardless of age may be considered as a competent witness, except:
A) Capacity of observation
B) Capacity of communication
C) None of these
D) Capacity of recollection
  • 12. What must be established. in addition to sexual intercourse in cases of rape?
A) Sterility of the offender
B) Resistance on the part of the victim
C) Use of force or intimidation by the offender
D) All of the foregoing
  • 13. When may evidences be considered as admissible in court?
A) When it is competent
B) When it is relevant to the issue
C) When it is not excluded by the law or the rules of court
D) All of the foregoing
  • 14. Refers to statement made by the litigants in the judicial proceedings.
A) Judicial notice
B) Judicial admissions
C) Pleadings
D) Judicial confessions
  • 15. Those evidences which results in the greatest certainty of the fact in question?
A) Secondary evidence
B) Competent evidence
C) Primary or best evidence
D) Conclusive evidence
  • 16. Refers to evidence which indicates that a better kind of evidence exists.
A) Competent evidence
B) Secondary evidence
C) Primary or best evidence
D) Conclusive evidence
  • 17. It forbids the addition or contradiction in terms of a written instrument by testimony purporting to show that other or different terms were orally agreed upon by the parties.
A) Parol evidence rule
B) Best evidence rule
C) Res Gestae rule
D) Hearsay rule
  • 18. Marital disqualification may apply, except:
A) The spouses was legally married
B) It involves civil cases filed by one against the other
C) The wife is a party to the case
D) The husband is a party to the case
  • 19. Refers to matters which are learned in confidence.
A) Privilege communication
B) Private communication
C) Confidential communication
D) Dying declaration
  • 20. The following are requisites for the disqualification based on attorney-client privilege, except:
A) No consent was given by the client to the attorney testifying thereon
B) Communication was made in the course of professional employment
C) Existence of an attorney client relation
D) None of the above
  • 21. When may a descendant be compelled to witness agains his parents or grandparents?
A) All of the foregoing
B) A criminal case by one grandparent against another
C) A crime against him
D) A criminal case by one the parent against the other
  • 22. An agreement made between two or more parties as a settlement of matters in question.
A) Compromise
B) Contract
C) Plea bargaining
D) Stipulation
  • 23. In admission by third party, the rights of a party cannot be prejudiced by an act, declaration or omission of another, except:
A) Admission by a co- partner/joint owner or debtor
B) Admission by conspirator
C) All of the foregoing
D) Admission by agent or privies
  • 24. Admission by agents shall be allowed when:
A) The admission refers to a matter within the scope of his authority
B) The admission was made during the existence of the agency
C) The agency is proved by evidence other the admission itself
D) All of the foregoing
  • 25. A dying declaration may be admissible as evidence in cases, except:
A) Imminent death but the declarant is conscious of facts
B) The declaration must concern the crime regarding the declarant's death
C) The declarant is a competent witness and the declaration is offered in a criminal case wherein the declarant's death is subject to the inquiry
D) None of the above
  • 26. Refers to inferences which the law makes so preemptory that it will not allow them to be overturned by any contrary proof.
A) Presumption
B) Conclusive presumption
C) Disputable
D) Stoppel
  • 27. A witness of the adverse party may be impeached except:
A) By evidence of other statements made by the witness which are inconsistent.
B) None of the above
C) A contradictory evidence
D) By evidence of his general reputation and integrity, and conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude
  • 28. Refers to an official entry of the proceedings in the coun of justice.
A) Blotter
B) Official record
C) Judicial notice
D) Judicial Record
  • 29. When may circumstantial evidence be sufficient to obtain conviction?
A) There is more than one circumstance
B) The facts from which the inference are derived were proven
C) All of the foregoing
D) When combined proof beyond reasonable doubt may be established
  • 30. Which among the following are not elements of a corpus delicti?
A) The accused need not necessarily be the doer of the act
B) Non of the foregoing
C) That a certain result has been produced
D) Some person is criminally responsible for the act
  • 31. Which among the following may be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding?
A) Privileged conversation
B) Parental privilege
C) Filial privilege
D) Dying declaration
  • 32. In PD 1612, the possession of the stolen goods is:
A) Evidence against the accused
B) Means that the accused is an accessory to the crime
C) Means that the accused is not the owner
D) Prima facie evidence of fencing
  • 33. Occurs when the evidence adduced proves the disputed fact.
A) Circumstantial
B) Relevant
C) Corroborative
D) Cumulative
  • 34. Evidence of this kind is those which are capable of perception?
A) Corroborative
B) Real
C) Testimonial
D) Material
  • 35. A priest may not be able to testify on pertinent matters to the case if said conversation or facts relates to that told in the confession made by the:
A) Penitent
B) Client
C) Patient
D) Secretary
  • 36. Who among the following are automatically disqualified to take the witness stand?
A) Homosexuals and lesbians
B) Sick persons
C) Insane persons
D) Children
  • 37. Evidence which shows that a best evidence existed as to the proof of the in questions.
A) Real evidence
B) Secondary evidence
C) Best evidence
D) Res gestae
  • 38. Legal fitness of a witness to be heard on the trial.
A) Eligibility
B) Admissibility
C) Competency
D) Qualification
  • 39. Means sanctioned by the rules of court to ascertain the truth respecting a matter of fact.
A) Proof
B) Intent
C) Evidence
D) Motive
  • 40. A duplicate receipt signed and carbon copied at the same time is in terms of its evidentiary value is deemed as:
A) Original
B) Duplicate
C) Genuine
D) Authentic
  • 41. Exemption to the hearsay rule made under the consciousness of an impending death.
A) Dead man statute
B) Mi ultimo adios
C) Parol evidence
D) Ante mortern statement
  • 42. When are children deemed not competent to qualify as a witness?
A) They have not reached the age of discernment.
B) They understand the obligation of the oath
C) They must have sufficient knowledge to receive just impressions as to the facts on which testify
D) They can relate to those facts truly to the court at the time they are offered as witness
  • 43. That degree of proof which produces in the mind of as unprejudiced person, that moral certainty or moral conviction that the accused did commit the offense charged.
A) Proof beyond reasonable doubt
B) Ultimate fact
C) Substantial evidence
D) Preponderance of evidence
  • 44. Circumstantial facts and declarations incidental to the main fact; means things done.
A) Factum probandum
B) Res gestae
C) Owes probandi
D) Factum probans
  • 45. A person who gives testimonial evidence to a judiciary tribunal.
A) Defense
B) Witness
C) Prosecution
D) Clerk of court
  • 46. In this sort of action, a person merely acknowledges certain facts but does not admit his guilt.
A) Confession
B) Testimony
C) Admission
D) Extra-judicial confession
  • 47. When a categorical statement of guilt was made before a competent tribunal we classify it as:
A) Extra-judicial
B) Judicial confession
C) Confession
D) Admission
  • 48. Any evidence whether oral or documentary wherein the probative value is not based on witness but that from another. personal knowledge of the witness but that from another.
A) Dying declaration
B) Hearsay
C) Res gestae
D) Testimonial evidence
  • 49. Refers to family history or descent.
A) Inheritance
B) Heritage
C) Tradition
D) Pedigree
  • 50. Obligations imposed upon a party to establish their alleged fact by proof are termed as "burned of proof", what is it's latin translation?
A) Owes probandi
B) Factum probans
C) Owe probandi
D) Factum probandum
  • 51. The probative value given by the court to a particular evidence.
A) Ultimate fact
B) Evidentiary fact
C) Weight of evidence
D) Preponderance of evidence
  • 52. A degree of proof below that of proof beyond reasonable doubt, which taken in its entirely is superior to that of another.
A) Secondary evidence
B) Best evidence
C) Weight of evidence
D) Preponderance of evidence
  • 53. The body of a crime.
A) Physical evidence
B) Corpus delicti
C) Real evidence
D) Autoptic evidence
  • 54. Which among the foregoing is not part of the judicial rule for sufficiency of circumstantial evidence to convict an accused?
A) The combination of all the circumstance is such as to produce a conviction beyond reasonable doubt.
B) It must be of judicial recognizance
C) The facts from which the inference are derived must be proved
D) There is more than one circumstance
  • 55. Minimum number of witnesses required in rape cases to secure a conviction.
A) 2
B) 1
C) None
D) 3
  • 56. Presumption which the law makes so preemptory that it will not allow them to be reversed by any contrary evidence.
A) Disputable presumption
B) Presumption
C) Conclusive presumptions
D) Conclusion
  • 57. Logical necessity which rests upon a party at any particular time during the trail to create a prima facie case in his own favor or to overthrow one created against him.
A) Burden of evidence
B) Burden of proff
C) Estoppel
D) Res gestae
  • 58. It is a bar which precludes a person from denying or asserting anything to the contrary of established truth
A) Burden of evidence
B) Estoppel
C) Burden of proof
D) Res gestae
  • 59. These questions suggest to the witness the answers to which an examining party requires.
A) Leading
B) Res gestae
C) Estoppel
D) Misleading
  • 60. A written act or record of acts of a sovereign authority or private writing acknowledge before a notary public.
A) Official record
B) Private document
C) Public document
D) Official document
  • 61. What would overturn an alibi and denial in a hearing?
A) Proof
B) Positive identification
C) Evidence
D) Testimony
  • 62. Prescribes the governing rules on evidence?
A) Rules on Criminal Procedure
B) Rules of Court
C) Constitution
D) Revised Penal Code
  • 63. Factum probans means:
A) Weight of evidence
B) Evidentiary fact
C) Ultimate fact
D) Preponderance of evidence
  • 64. Evidence which has some relation to what is sought to be proved.
A) Admissible
B) Compenent
C) Material
D) Relevant
  • 65. It affects an issue in an important or substantial matter.
A) Relevant
B) Material
C) Competent
D) Direct
  • 66. Those evidences which are admissible in court are held to be:
A) Direct
B) competent
C) Material
D) Relevant
  • 67. Refers to an evidence of the same kind adduced to prove the samer fact.
A) Corroborative
B) Circumstantial
C) Cumulative
D) Real
  • 68. Additional evidence of a different kind but tending to prove the same fact.
A) Cumulative
B) Real
C) Corroborative
D) Circumstantial
  • 69. Oral testimony given in open court.
A) Testimonial evidence
B) Documentary evidence
C) Admission evidence
D) Real evidence
  • 70. Evidence delivered in open court wherein the witness states that he does not know whether a fact did or did not occur.
A) Circumstantial
B) Negative
C) Direct
D) Positive
  • 71. Evidence which is sufficient to prove an issue unless overcome or rebutted by other evidences.
A) Prima facie
B) Best
C) Secondary
D) Primary
  • 72. Given by a person of specialized knowledge in some particular field.
A) Primary
B) Expert
C) Secondary
D) Best
  • 73. That kind of evidence which cannot be rebutted of overcome.
A) Conclusive
B) Best
C) Real
D) Primary
  • 74. Legal basis of inadmissibility of evidences obtained thru torture, threat, violence or intimidation.
A) Sec 12 Bill of Rights
B) Sec 3 Bill of Rights
C) Sec 17 Bill of Rights
  • 75. Cognizance of certain facts which judges may prope take as fact because they are already known to them.
A) Judicial Notice
B) Judicial knowledge
C) Cognizance
D) Judicial Admission
  • 76. One which assumes as true a fact not yet testified to the witness, or contrary to stated.
A) Misleading
B) Leading
C) Res gestae
D) Confusing
  • 77. When a witness affirms that a fact did or did not occur, such testimony is said to be:
A) Material evidence
B) Positive evidence
C) Negative evidence
D) Relevant evidence
  • 78. What is meant by demurrer to evidence?
A) Motion to inhibit
B) Motion to dismiss
C) Motion to postpone
D) Plea to dismiss
  • 79. When can a circumstantial evidence sufficient to convict?
A) The combination of all the circumstances is such as to produce a conviction beyond reasonable doubt.
B) The facts from which the inference are derived must be proved
C) There is more than one circumstance
D) All of these
  • 80. The following are elements of corpus delicti, except:
A) The accused must be the doer of the act
B) That a certain result has been produced.
C) Some person is criminally liable for the act.
D) The accused need not necessarily be the doer of the act the
  • 81. Private document are proved by:
A) Evidence of the genuineness of the handwriting of the writer
B) Testimony of anyone who saw the execution of the writing.
C) Testimony of the one who made the writing
D) Both B and C
  • 82. Any deed or instrument executed by a private person without the intervention of a notary public.
A) Private Document
B) Genuine document
C) Public Document
D) Holographic document
  • 83. Who among the following may be used to prove the handwriting of a person in open court?
A) a. Secretary of the accused for 20 years Friend and co-employee of the accused for more than 20 years.
B) Any of the foregoing.
C) A questioned document examiner.
D) Secretary of the accused for 20 years.
  • 84. Under the rules, a judicial record may be impeached by;
A) Evidence of fraud in the party offering the record with respect to the proceedings.
B) Any of the foregoing
C) Evidence of want in the jurisdiction in the court of judicial officer with respect to the proceedings.
D) Evidence of collusion between the parties in the proceedings.
  • 85. When shall the offer of testimonial evidence made?
A) After testimony
B) After the oath of taken by the witness
C) After the oath of taken by the witness
D) Before testimony of the witness
  • 86. When can the adverse party object to any testimonial evidence?
A) During the cross examination
B) After the testimony of the witness
C) After the direct examination of the witness.
D) At any time and as soon as the grounds therefore become reasonably apparent.
  • 87. Several documentary evidences were not formally offered at the hearing of the case, this would;
A) Prompt the court to exclude the same from the record
B) Be of no bearing since it is related and important with the case at hand.
C) Prompt the court to accept it.
D) Prompt the court to issue a subpoena
  • 88. Generally, objection to documentary evidences must be made;
A) After it has been offered in evidence d wit
B) d. None of these
C) Within 3 days after notice of the offer unless a different period is allowed by the court.
D) Before it has been offered in evidence
  • 89. The degree of proof which produces in the mind of a that the accused did commit the offense charged. Also know unprejudiced person, that moral certainty or moral convict as the quantum of evidence used to convict the pers charged in criminal cases.
A) Weight of evidence
B) Preponderance of evidence
C) Proof beyond reasonable doubt
D) Sufficiency of evidence
  • 90. When may a formal offer of object and documentary evidence is made?
A) After a party's testimonial evidence
B) During pre-trial
C) After the presentation of witnesses of both litigants
D) After pre trial
  • 91. Generally leading questions are allowed on dire examinations in the following cases, except:
A) When they relate to preliminary matters.
B) When there is difficulty in obtaining direct and intelligible answers from the witness.
C) In interrogation of an unwilling or hostile witness.
D) By contradictory evidence
  • 92. Who among the following may give intelligible answers witnesses?
A) A feeble minded person
B) A registered voter
C) A deaf-mute person
D) A child of tender age
  • 93. When may a party impeach his own witness?
A) Where the witness is not voluntarily offered but required by law to be presented by the proponent.
B) In case of a hostile witness.
C) Any of the foregoing.
D) Where the witness is the adverse party or the representative of a juridical person which is the adverse party.
  • 94. The following are means of impeaching a witness of the adverse party, except:
A) In case of a hostile witness
B) Inconsistencies of statements made with respect to the testimony.
C) By contradictory evidence
D) Evidence that his general reputation for truth or integrity is bad.
  • 95. These are testimonies which are read and submitted as evidence provided that the despondent is dead or cannot testify or outside the country.
A) Deposition
B) Testimonial evidence
C) Oral testimony
D) Extra judicial statements
  • 96. The following are factors required to qualify a person as an expert witness, except:
A) Of legal age
B) Particular first hand familiarity with the facts of the present case
C) Presentation of the authorities on which his opinions are based
D) Extensive Training and Education
  • 97. Res gestae may be admissible with the following requisites, except:
A) The statement must be spontaneous.
B) The statements made must refer to the occurrence in question and its attending circumstance.
C) There must be a startling occurrence
D) It must exist previous to the controversy
  • 98. Which among the following may disqualify a witness?
A) Capacity of recollection
B) Capacity of communication
C) Capacity of knowledge
D) Capacity of observation
  • 99. In case of falsification of document what would be the best evidence?
A) Questioned document
B) Authentic document
C) Holographic document
D) Genuine document
  • 100. Which among the following may not be a means to impeach in judicial record?
A) Collusion between in parties
B) Alterations
C) Want of jurisdiction in the court or judicial officer
D) Fraud in the party offering the recoerd
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