Title 4: Crimes against Public Interest Flashcards
Punishable Acts of COUNTERFEITING SEAL OF GOVERNMENT, SIGNATURE AND STAMP OF PRESIDENT
Art 161: Counterfeiting Seal of Government
- Forging the Great Seal of the Government of the Philippines
- Forging the signature of the President
- When, in a government document, the signature of the President is forged, it is not falsification of public document, but forging the signature of the Chief Executive - Forging the stamp of the President
Elements of USE OF FORGED SIGNATURE OR COUNTERFEIT SEAL OR STAMP
Art 162: USE OF FORGED SIGNATURE OR COUNTERFEIT SEAL OR STAMP
1.Great Seal of the Republic was counterfeited, or the signature or stamp of the Chief Executive was forged by another person
2.Offender knew of counterfeiting or forgery
3.Used the counterfeit seal or forged signature or stamp
Note: The offender must not be the forger. If he is the forger, crime is forgery under Art. 161.
ELEMENTS OF MAKING AND UTTERING FALSE COINS
Art 163: MAKING AND UTTERING FALSE COINS
- There be false or counterfeited coins
- Any coinage of the PH, including those withdrawn from circulation
- Coin of the currency of a foreign country
- If counterfeited coin was already originally a coin but to look like a higher value, crime is estafa - Offender made, imported, or uttered such coins (MIU)
- In case of uttering such false or counterfeited coins, he connived with the counterfeiters or importers
Notes:
Counterfeiting: Money or Currency
Forgery: Instruments of credit and Obligation and Securities
Falsification: Only in respect of documents
Uttering: Put into circulation
Punishable Acts of Mutilation of Coins
Art 164: Mutilation of Coins
- Mutilating coins of the legal currency, with the intent to damage or to defraud another
- Mutilation is to diminish, by ingenious means, the metal in the coin, thus diminishing its intrinsic value.
- Must be current coin of the PH
- Foreign Currency not included - Importing or uttering such mutilated coins,
- Uttering must be done in connivance with the mutilator or importer
Is there a mutilation of Paper Bills
Art 164: Mutilation of Coins
Yes, under PD 247
Punishable Acts of SELLING OF FALSE OR MUTILATED COIN, WITHOUT CONNIVANCE
Art 165: SELLING OF FALSE OR MUTILATED COIN,
- Possession of coin, counterfeited or mutilated by another with intent to utter the same knowing that it is false or mutilated
- Possession of Counterfeited or Mutilated Coin
- Intent to Utter
- Knowing that it is false or mutilated - Actually uttering false or mutilated coin, knowing it to be false or mutilated
- Actually uttering (punished here when it is not in connivance with the counterfeiter or mutilator)
- Knowing that it is false of mutilated (aas long as offender has knowledge, he no longer needs to be in connivance with importer or counterfeiter)
Note:
- If Mutilated Coin, must be legal tender
Punishable Acts of FORGING TREASURY OR BANK NOTES OR OTHER DOCUMENTS PAYABLE TO BEARER; IMPORTING AND UTTERING THE SAME
Art 166: FORGING TREASURY OR BANK NOTES OR
- Forging or falsification of treasury or bank notes or other documents payable to bearer (basically, bills lang toh)
- Forging: giving to a bank note or any instrument payable to bearer or to order the appearance of a genuine document.
- Falsification (this is also 2nd definition of forgery): altering by any means the figures contained therein. - Importing the false or forged bank notes (bills)
- Uttering such false or forged such bank notes (bills) in connivance with the forger or importers
What documents are punished in this article?
Art 166: FORGING TREASURY OR BANK NOTES
Anything issued by the Government but if issued by bank, it is commercial document punishable under Art. 172
Example:
- Flasification of a Lotto Ticket
Commercial Document:
- Flasification of Check by Land Bank
- Falsification of Philippine National Bank Checks
- Falsification of Check Payable to Cash
Elements of COUNTERFEITING, IMPORTING, AND UTTERING INSTRUMENTS NOT PAYABLE TO BEARER
Art 167: COUNTERFEIT, IMPORT, AND UTTER INSTRUMENT NOT PAYABLE TO BEARER
- There be an instrument payable to order or other document of credit not payable to bearer
- Offender either forged, imported, or uttered such instrument
- In case of uttering, he connived with the importer or forger
Elements of ILLEGAL POSSESSION AND USE OF FALSE BANK NOTES
Art 168: ILLEGAL POSSESSION AND USE OF FALSE BANK NOTES
- (a) Bank note or document payable to bearer or (b) any instrument payable to order or other credit not payable to bearer is forged or falsified by another
- Offender knows that any of these instruments is forged or falsified
- Performs any of these acts:
- Using any of such forged or falsified instruments
- Possessing with intent to use, any of the forged or falsified documents
Note:
- If utterer, forger already liable uner Art. 166 or 167
- Intent to use is sufficient to consummate the crime, but if instead of carrying out his intention, he threw away the forged note, he is not liable. But if he is caught before throwing it away, he is punishable under Art 168.
Ways of Committing Forgery
Art 169. How Forgery is Committed
- Giving to a treasury or bank note or any instrument payable to bearer or to order the appearance of a true and genuine document
- Includes adding words to a bill out of circulation to make it seem like it is in circulation again - Altering by any means the figures contained therein
Note:
- Should be a bank note or anything issued by the Government. If the subject of forgery was another, the crime is falsification under Art. 171 or 172.
Kinds of Documents
Art. 170- 173
- Public Document: Any instrument notarized by a notary public or competent public official with the solemnities required by law
- Includes documents seized by the government - Official Document: Any instrument issued by the government or its officers
- Public Document is broader so before a document becomes official, it needs to be public first. To become an official document, there must be a law which requires a public officer to issue an official document. - Private Document: Every deed by a private person without intervention of the notary public
- theater ticket
- cash disbursement - Commercial Document: Any instrument executed in accordance with the Code of Commerce
- checks of any bank
What is falsification under Art 170 - 173
Art. 170- 173
- Fabricating an inexistent document
- Changing the contents of an existing one through any of the 8 ways enumerated under Art. 171
Elements of Falsification of Legislative Documents
Art. 170: Falsification of Legislative Documents
- There’s a genuine bill or ordinance enacted or approved or pending approval by either the House or any provincial board or municipal board
- Any offender, private individual or public official who does not have custody, alters the same
- However, accused must not be a public official entrusted with custody of such document. If he is entrusted with custody, Art 171 applies. - He has no authority to alter
- Alteration changed the meaning of the document
- If it does not change the meaning, Art 171 or Art 172 applies.
Elements of FALSIFICATION BY PUBLIC OFFICER, EMPLOYEE OR NOTARY OR ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTER
Art 171
- The offender is a public officer, employee, notary public, or ecclesiastical minister
- ecclesiastical minister is liable with respect to falsification that may affect the civil status of persons
- A private individual who is in conspiracy with a public officer is also guilty of this crime. - He takes advantage of his postion when
- he has the duty to make or prepare document; or
- Has official custody of it
- If not, guilty of falsification of public documents by private indiv under Art. 172 - Falsified a document
- intent to gain or injure is not necessary. What is punished is violation of public faith
- No falsification if consistent with good faith
- It can be any document since if document is executed by a public officer, it becomes a public document
- falsification by omission is possible and reckless imprudence resulting to falsification of public documents
- no attempted or frustrated stage
Genuine Document Needed
1,6,7(2nd Part), 8
Simulating is Sufficient
2,3,4,5,7(first part)
8 Modes of Falsifying a Document
Art 171
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- Counterfeiting (needs genuine) or imitating(simulating) any handwriting, signature, or rubric
Elements:
- intent to imitate or attempt to imitate
- For counterfeiting, 2 signatures or handwriting (genuine and forged) that bear resemblance to each other
- Causing it to appear that persons have participated in any act or proceeding when they did not in fact so participate
Elements:
- Caused it to appear in a document that a person or persons participated in an act or proceeding
- Such person or persons did not in fact participatein the act or proceeding
- Attributing to persons who have participated in an act or proceeding statements other than those in fact made by them
Elements:
1. A person or persons farticipated in an act or
proceeding
2. Such person or persons made statements in that act or proceeding
3. The offender in making a document, attributed to such person, statements other than those in fact made by such person or persons
- Making untruthful statements in a narration of facts
Elements: (NLFI)
1. In a document, offender makes statements in a narration of facts
- must be a narration of facts, not a conclusion of law such as stating “wilfully and unlawfully” eligible to this office.
2. Has the legal obligation to disclose the truth of facts narrated by him
- there is a law requiring the disclosure of the truth
3. Facts narrated by him are absolutely false
4. Perversion of truth in the narration was made with wrongful intent of injuring a third person
- offender must be aware of the falsity
- intent not needed when it is a public document
Note: If narration of facts is in an affidavit reuqired by law to be sworn to, crime is perjury. In perjury, what is violated is the solemnity of the oath.
- Alterting True Dates
Elements:
1. Date mentioned in document is essential
- date in police blotter, marriage cert, birth cert, death cert, etv.
2. Alteration of the date must affect either the veracity or the effects of the document
- Making any alteration (change) or intercalation (insertion) in a genuine document which changes its meaning
- if it is changed to speak the truth, then not falsification
Elements: (AI-G-NE-CF)
1. There be an alteration (change) or intercalation (insertion) on a document
2. It was made on a genuine document
3. If the document is not genuine, the crime of estafa is committed
4. The alteration or intercalation has changed the meaning of the document
5. The change made the document speak
something false
- A. Issuing a document in an authenticated form pretending to be a copy of an original document when no such original exists, or
- notary made a copy of a deed of sale which was never executed - B. Including a statement contrary to, or different from, that of the genuine original in the fake copy
- Civil Registrar recorded legitimate when the OG doesnt contain such statement - Inserting any note in a protocol, registry, or official book that is relative to its issuance
Punishable Acts under FALSIFICATION BY PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS AND
USE OF FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS
Art. 172: Falsification by private Individuals and Use of Falsified Docs
- Falsification of public, official, or commercial document by a private person
- Falsification of private document by any person
- Use of falsified documents
Elements of Falsification of public, official, or commercial document by a private person
Art. 172: Falsification by private Individuals and Use of Falsified Docs
Private Person Faps = Pri-FaPOC
- Offender is a Private individual or a public officer or employee who did not take advantage of his official position;
- That he committed any of the acts of
falsification enumerated in Art. 171 pars. 1-6
- Not 7 because it can only ve done by a public official with custody of the document - That the falsification was committed in a public or official or commercial document
- Lack of malice is a defense for public documents even though public document does not require intent to damage a third person.