PART 2 Flashcards
is that cause which in the ordinary and CONTINUOUS SEQUENCE unbroken by any efficient intervening cause produces the injury.
Proximate cause
are those that BREAK THE RELATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
Efficient intervening cause
those crimes which would have been committed against person or property were it not for the inherent IMPOSSIBILITY OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTor on account of the employment of inadequate or ineffectual means
IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES
What is The penalty for impossible crime?
arresto mayor or fine of P200-500
3 STAGES OF EXECUTION OF FELONIES:
CONSUMATED
FRUSTRATED
ATTEMPTED
when all the elements necessary for its execution and
ACCOMPLISHMENT IS PRESENT
CONSUMATED
when the offender performs all the acts of execution which would produce the felony as a consequence but which, nevertheless, DO NOT PRODUCE IT BY REASON OF CAUSES INDEPENDENT OF THE WILL of the perpetrator.
FRUSTRATED
when the offender commences the commission of a
felony directly or over acts, and does NOT PERFORM ALL THE ACTS OF EXECUTION which should produce the felony by reason of some cause or accident other than this own spontaneous desistance.
ATTEMPTED
It is some physical activity or deed MORE THAN A MERE PLANNING OR PREPARATION, which if carried out to its complete termination following its natural course
OVERT ACT
It is one where the purpose of the offender in
PERFORMING AN ACT IS NOT CERTAIN
INDETERMINATE OFFENSE
How to determine whether a crime is attempted, frustrated or consummated?
- the elements present I
- the nature of the offense
- the manner of the commission of the crime
are crimes CONSUMMATED IN ONE INSTANT
Formal crimes
There is ONLY ONE STAGE and that is consummated stage.
Formal Crimes
have THREE STAGES OF EXECUTION, attempted, frustrated and consummated
Material crimes
is that portion of the acts constituting the crime, starting from the point where the offender begins the commission of the crime to the point where
HE STILL HAS CONTROL OVER HIS ACT and their natural course.
Subjective phase