Article 16-19 Flashcards
Three persons who are criminally liable for grave and less grave felonies
- Principals
- Accomplices
- Accessories
Two persons who are criminally liable for light felonies:
- Principals
- Accomplices
Three classifications of principals:
- Principal by direct participation.
- Principal by inducement or induction.
- Principal by indispensable cooperation.
Those who take direct part in the execution of the act
Principal by direct participation.
Those who directly force or induce others to commit the act
Principal by inducement or induction.
Those who cooperate in the commission of the offense by another act without which it would not have been accomplished.
Principal by indispensable cooperation.
Two principals who are present at the crime scene:
- Principal by indispensable cooperation
- Principal by direct participation
Principal who need not be at the crime scene:
Principal by inducement
Principal who takes the direct, fatal blow.
Personally and physically took part in the execution of the acts
Principal by direct participation.
Principal by directly forcing another to commit a crime
Principal by inducement or induction.
Two ways forcing is done
- Irresistible force
- Uncontrollable fear
T/F. Both principal and person induced incur criminal liability (principal by direct participation)
True
Two requisites for principal by inducement
- Made directly with the intention of procuring the commission of the crime
- Be the determining cause of the commission of the crime
Two ways to induce
- Giving a price, or offering reward or promise
- Using words of command
Five requisites for inducement by words of command
- MUST HAVE THE INTENTION of procuring the commission of the crime
- MUST HAVE ASCENDANCY or influence over the person who acted
- MUST BE SO DIRECT, SO EFFICACIOUS, SO POWERFUL, as to amount to physical or moral coercion
- MUST BE UTTERED PRIOR to the commission of the crime
- Material executor has NO PERSONAL REASON to commit the crime