MOCK BOARD EXAMINATION

CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Write the letter
of your choice on the answer sheet provided.

1. Badong, with evident premeditation and treachery killed his father. What was the crime
committed?
a. Murder
b. Parricide
c. Homicide
d. Qualified Homicide
2. PO3 Bagsik entered the dwelling of Totoy against the latter’s will on suspicion that Totoy
keep unlicensed firearms in his home. What was the crime committed by PO3 Bagsik?
a. Trespass to Dwelling
b. Violation of Domicile
c. Usurpation of Authority
d. Forcible Trespassing
3. Berung and Betang had been married for more than six months. They live together with
the children of Betang from her first husband. Berung had sexual relationship with Bea,
the 14year old daughter of Betang. Bea love Berung very much. What was the crime
committed by Berung, if any?
a. Simple Seduction
b. Qualified Seduction
c. Consented Abduction
d. Rape
4. Prof. Juan gave a failing grade to one of his students, Sixto. When the two met the
following day, Sixto slapped Prof. Juan on the face. What was the crime committed by
Sixto?
a. Corruption of Public Officials
b. Direct Assault
c. Slight Physical Injuries
d. Grave Coercion
5. A warrant of arrest was issued against Pekto for the killing of his parents. When PO2
Tapang tried to arrest him, Pekto gave him 1 million Pesos to set him free. PO2
Tapang refrained in arresting Pekto. What was the crime committed by PO2 Tapang?
a. Indirect Bribery
b. Direct Bribery
c. Corruption of Public Officials
d. Qualified Bribery
6. Exemption to the hearsay rule made under the consciousness of an impending death.
a. parol evidence b. ante mortem statement
c. suicide note d. dead man statute
7. The meaning of factum probans.
a. preponderance of evidence
b. ultimate fact
c. evidentiary fact
d. sufficiency of evidence
8. It refers to family history or descent transmitted from one generation to another.
a. inheritance
b. heritage
c. pedigree
d. culture
9. The authority of the court to take cognisance of the case in the first instance.
a. Appellate Jurisdiction – a superior court has power to correct legal errors
made in a lower court
b. General Jurisdiction
c. Original Jurisdiction- case refers to the court which first hears a case
d. Exclusive Jurisdiction – certain power
10. A person designated by the court to assist destitute litigants.
a. Counsel de officio
b. Attorney on record
c. Attorney at law
d. Special counsel
11. Which of the following is not covered by the Rules on Summary Procedure?
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 a. Violation of rental laws
b. Violation of traffic laws
c. The penalty is more than six months of imprisonment
d. The penalty does not exceed 6months imprisonment
12. It refers to a territorial unit where the power of the court is to be exercised.
a. jurisdiction b. jurisprudence
c. venue d. bench
13. The Anti-Bouncing Check Law.
a. RA 6425 b. RA 8353
c. BP 22 d. RA 6975
14. The taking of another person’s personal property, with intent to gain, by means of force
and intimidation.
a. qualified theft b. robbery
c. theft d. malicious mischief
15. Felony committed when a person compels another by means of force, violence or
intimidation to do something against his will, whether right or wrong.
a. grave threat b. grave coercion
c. direct assault d. slander by deed
16. Persons having no apparent means of subsistence but has the physical ability to work
and neglects to apply himself or herself to lawful calling.
a. pimps b. prostitutes
c. gang members d. vagrants
17. A medley of discordant voices, a mock serenade of discordant noises designed to annoy
and insult.
a. tumultuous b. charivari
c. sedition d. scandal
18. The unauthorized act of a public officer who compels another person to change his
residence.
a. violation of domicile b. arbitrary detention
c. expulsion d. direct assault
19. The deprivation of a private person of the liberty of another person without legal
grounds.
a. illegal detention b. arbitrary detention
c. forcible abduction d. forcible detention
20. An offense committed by a married woman through carnal knowledge with a man not her
husband who knows her to be married, although the marriage be later declared void.
a. concubinage b. bigamy
c. adultery d. immorality

21. Age of absolute irresponsibility in the commission of a crime.

a. 15-18 years old b. 18-70years old
c. 9 years old and below d. between 9 & 15years old
22. Those who, not being principals cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous or
simultaneous acts.
a. accomplices b. suspects
c. principal actors d. accessories
23. The loss or forfeiture of the right of the government to execute the final sentence after
the lapse of a certain time fixed by law.
a. prescription of crime
b. prescription of prosecution
c. prescription of judgement
d. prescription of penalty
24. A kind of executive clemency whereby the execution of penalty is suspended.
a. pardon b. commutation
c. amnesty d. reprieve
25. Infractions of mere rules of convenience designed to secure a more orderly regulation of
the affairs of the society.
a. mala prohibita b. mala in se
c. private crimes d. public crimes
26. Felony committed by a public officer who agrees to commit an act in consideration of a
gift and this act is connected with the discharge of his public duties.
a. qualified bribery b. direct bribery
c. estafa d. indirect bribery
27. The wilful and corrupt assertion of falsehood under oath of affirmation, administered by
authority of law on a material matter.
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 a. libel b. falsification
c. perjury d. slander
28. Deliberate planning of act before execution.
a. treachery b. evident premeditation
c. ignominy d. cruelty
29. Whenever more than 3 armed malefactors shall have acted together in the commission
of a crime.
a. gang b. conspiracy
c. band d. piracy
30. The failure to perform a positive duty which one is bound to.
a. negligence b. imprudence
c. omission d. act
31. Ways and means are employed for the purpose of trapping and capturing the law
breaker in the execution of his criminal plan.
a. misfeasance b. entrapment
c. inducement d. instigation
32. Those where the act committed is a crime but for reasons of public policy and sentiment
there is no penalty imposed.
a. impossible crimes
b. aggravating circumstances
c. absolutory causes
d. complex crimes
33. An alternative circumstance.
a. insanity b. intoxication
c. passion or obfuscation d. evident premeditation
34. If the accused refuse to plead, or make conditional plea of guilty, what shall be entered
for him?
a. a plea of not guilty b. a plea of guilty
c. a plea of mercy d. plea of surrender

35. At what time may the accused move to quash the complaint or information?
a. at any time before his arrest
b. only after entering his plea
C. any time before entering his plea
d. Monday morning
36. The process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a
mutually satisfactory disposition on the case subject to court approval.
a. arraignment b. plea bargaining
c. preliminary investigation d. trial
37. The security given for the release of a person in custody, furnished by him or a
bondsman, conditioned upon his appearance before any court as required under the
conditions specified by law.
a. subpoena b. recognizance
c. bail d. warrant
38. The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the laws of the land, of the
acts in issue in a case, for the purpose of determining such issue.
a. trial b. arraignment
b. pre-trial d. judgment
39. The adjudication by the court that the accused is guilty or is not guilty of the offense
charged, and the imposition of the proper penalty and civil liability provided for by law on
the accused.
a. trial b. pre-trial
c. arraignment d. judgment
40. It is an inquiry or proceeding for the purpose of determining whether there is sufficient
ground to engender a well founded belief that an offense has been committed and the
offender is probably guilty thereof and should be held for trial.
a. pre-trial b. arraignment
c. preliminary investigation d. plea bargaining
41. It is evidence of the same kind and to the same state of facts.
a. secondary evidence b. prima facie evidence
c. corroborative evidence d. best evidence
42. It is that which, standing alone, unexplained or uncontradicted is sufficient to maintain
the proposition affirmed.
a. secondary evidence b. prima facie evidence
c. corroborative evidence d. best evidence
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43. A form of evidence supplied by written instruments or derived from conventional
symbols, such as letters, by which ideas are represented on material substances.
a. documentary evidence b. testimonial evidence
c. material evidence d. real evidence
44. When the witness states that he did not see or know the occurrence of a fact.
a. positive evidence b. corroborative evidence
c. secondary evidence d. negative evidence
45. Personal property that can be subjects for search and seizure.
a. used or intended to be used as means in committing an offense
b. stolen or embezzled and other proceeds or fruits of the offense
c. subject of the offense
d. all of the above
46. All persons who can perceive and perceiving, can make known their perception to
others.
a. suspects b. witnesses
c. victims d. informers

47. The unlawful destruction, or the bringing forth prematurely, of human fetus before the
natural time of birth which results in death.
a. abortion b. infanticide
c. murder d. parricide
48. Felony committed when a person is killed or wounded during the confusion attendant to
a quarrel among several persons not organized into groups and the parties responsible
cannot be ascertained.
a. alarm and scandal
b. mysterious homicide
c. death under exceptional circumstances
d. tumultuous affray
49. A question which arises in a case the resolution of which is the logical antecedent of the
issue involved in said case and the cognisance of which pertains to another tribunal.
a. legal question b. juridical question
c. prejudicial question d. judicial question
50. The offender has been previously punished for an offense to which the law attaches an
equal or greater penalty or two or more crimes to which it attaches a lighter penalty.
a. reiteration b. recidivism
b. quasi-recidivism d. habitual delinquency
51. An act or omission which is a result of a misapprehension of facts that is voluntary but
not intentional.
a. impossible crime b. mistake of facts
c. accidental crime d. complex crime
52. Infanticide is committed by killing a child not more than….
a. 36 hours b. 24 hours
c. 48 hours d. 72 hours
53. Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith.
a. ignorantia legis non excusat b. parens patriae
c. res ipsa loquitur d. dura lex sed lex
54. An act which would be an offense against persons or property were if not for the inherent
impossibility of its accomplishment.
a. compound crime b. impossible crime
c. complex crime d. accidental crime
55. The law which reimposed the death penalty.
a. RA 5425 b. RA 8553
c. RA 7659 d. RA 8551
56. One who is deprived completely of reason or discernment and freedom of the will at the
time of the commission of the crime.
a. discernment b. insanity
c. epilepsy d. imbecility
57. The quality by which an act may be subscribed to a person as its owner or author.
a. responsibility b. duty
c. guilt d. imputability
58. Something that happen outside the sway of our will, and although it comes about
through some acts of our will, lies beyond the bounds of humanly foreseeable
consequences.
a. fortuitous event b. fate
c. accident d. destiny
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59. A sworn written statement charging a person with an offense, subscribed by the
offended party, any peace officer or other public officer charged with the enforcement of
the law violated.
a. subpoena b. information
c. complaint d. writ
60. This right of the accused is founded on the principle of justice and is intended not to
protect the guilty but to prevent as far as human agencies can, the conviction of an
innocent person.
a. right to due process of law
b. presumption of innocence
c. right to remain silent
d. right against self-incrimination
61. Known in other countries as the body of principles, practices, usages and rules of action
which are not recognized in our country.
a. penal laws b. special laws
c. common laws d. statutory laws
62. Circumstances wherein there is an absence in the agent of the crime any of all the
conditions that would make an act voluntary and hence, though there is no criminal
liability there is civil liability.
a. exempting b. alternative
c. justifying d. aggravating
63. Circumstances wherein the acts of the person are in accordance with the law, and
hence, he incurs no criminal and civil liability.
a. exempting b. alternative
c. justifying d. aggravating
64. When the offender enjoys and delights in making his victim suffer slowly and gradually,
causing him unnecessary physical pain in the consummation of the criminal act.
a. ignominy b. cruelty
c. treachery d. masochism
65. One, who at the time of his trial for one crime shall have been previously convicted by
final judgment of another crime embraced in the same title of the Revised Penal Code.
a. recidivism b. habitual delinquency
c. reiteration d. quasi-recidivism
66. Alevosia means
a. craft b. treachery
c. evident premeditation d. cruelty
67. The law hears before it condemns, proceeds upon inquiry and render judgment after a
fair trial.
a. ex post facto law
b. equal protection of the law
c. rule of law
d. due process of law
68. A person if within a period of 10 years from the date of his release or last conviction of
the crime of serious or less serious physical injuries, robbery, theft, estafa or falsification,
he is found guilty of any of the said crimes a third time or oftener.
a. recidivist b. quasi-recidivist
c. habitual delinquent d. hardened criminal
69. A kind of evidence which cannot be rebutted or overcome.
a. Primary b. Best
c. Secondary d. Conclusive
70. A kind of evidence which cannot be rebutted or overcome.
a. Primary b. Best
c. Secondary d. Conclusive
71. These questions suggest to the witness the answers to which an examining party
requires.
a. leading b. misleading
c. stupid d. hearsay

72. A method fixed by law for the apprehension and prosecution of persons alleged to have
committed a crime, and for their punishment in case of conviction.
a. Criminal Law b. Criminal Evidence
c. Criminal Procedure d. Criminal Jurisprudence
73. The period of prescription of crimes punishable by death.
a. 20 years b. 15 years
c. 10 years d. 40 years
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74. Persons who take direct part in the execution of a crime.
a. accomplices b. accessories
c. instigators d. principals
75. A crime against honor which is committed by performing any act which casts dishonor,
discredit, or contempt upon another person.
a. libel
b. slander by deed
c. incriminating innocent person
d. intriguing against honor
76. The improper performance of some act which might lawfully be done.
a. misfeasance b. malfeasance
c. nonfeasance d. dereliction
77. A sworn statement in writing, made upon oath before an authorized magistrate or officer.
a. subpoena b. writ
c. warrant d. affidavit
78. Any other name which a person publicly applies to himself without authority of law.
a. alias b. common name
c. fictitious name d. screen name
79. A special aggravating circumstance where a person, after having been convicted by final
judgment, shall commit a new felony before beginning to serve such sentence, or while
serving the same.
a. quasi-recidivism b. recidivism
c. reiteration d. charivari
80. Which of the following is not a person in authority.
a. Municipal mayor b. Private School Teacher
c. Police Officer d. Municipal Councilor
81. In its general sense, it is the raising of commotions or disturbances in the State.
a. Sedition b. Rebellion
c. Treason d. Coup d’ etat
82. The length of validity of a search warrant from its date.
a. 30 days b. 15 days
c. 10 days d. 60 days
83. The detention of a person without legal grounds by a public officer or employee.
a. illegal detention b. arbitrary detention
c. compulsory detention d. unauthorized detention
84. A breach of allegiance to a government, committed by a person who owes allegiance to
it.
a. treason b. espionage
c. rebellion d. coup d’ etat
85. A building or structure, exclusively used for rest and comfort.
a. sanctuary b. prison
c. jail d. dwelling
86. The mental capacity to understand the difference between right and wrong.
a. treachery b. premeditation
c. recidivism d. discernment

87. Conspiracy to commit this felony is punishable under the law.

a. Estafa b. Murder
c. Rebellion d. Rape
88. It means that the resulting injury is greater than that which is intended.
a. Aberratio ictus b. Error in personae
c. Dura Lex Sed lex d. Praeter Intentionem
89. It means mistake in the blow.
a. Aberratio Ictus b. Error in Personae
c. Dura lex sed lex d. Praeter Intentionem

90. A stage of execution when all the elements necessary for its execution and
accomplishment are present.
a. Attempted b. Frustrated
c. Consummated d. Accomplished
91. An act or omission which is the result of a misapprehension of facts that is voluntary but
not intentional.
a. Absolutory Cause b. Mistake of facts
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 c. Conspiracy d. Felony
92. Crimes that have three stages of execution.
a. Material b. Formal
c. Seasonal d. Continuing
93. Felonies where the acts or omissions of the offender are malicious.
a. Culpable b. Intentional
c. Deliberate d. Inculpable
94. It indicates deficiency of perception.
a. Negligence b. Diligence
c. Imprudence d. Inference
95. Acts and omissions punishable by special penal laws.
a. Offenses b. Misdemeanours
c. Felonies d. Ordinances
96. A character of Criminal Law, making it binding upon all persons who live or sojourn in
the Philippines.
a. General b. Territorial
c. Prospective d. Retroactive

97. A legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial.

a. Bill of Attainder b. Bill of Rights
c. Ex Post Facto Law d. Penal Law
98. The taking of a person into custody in order that he may bound to answer for the
commission of an offense.
a. Search b. Seizure
c. Arrest d. Detention
99. Pedro stole the cow of Juan. What was the crime committed?
a. Robbery b. Farm Theft
c. Qualified Theft d. Simple Theft

100. Pedro, a 19year old man had sexual intercourse with her 11year old girlfriend without
threat, force or intimidation. What was the crime committed?
a. Child rape b. Qualified Rape
c. Statutory Rape d. None

**Nothing follows**

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