CLJ 3 Criminal Law Reviewer - FQ
CLJ 3 Criminal Law Reviewer - FQ
____________________1. It is that branch of public law which defines criminal offenses and prescribes
specific punishment for them.
____________________2. Is a penal law which is given retroactive application to the prejudice of the
accused.
____________________4. The accused who has been acquitted or convicted of a crime is again put on
trial for the same crime.
____________________5. Penal laws and those of public security and safety shall be obligatory upon all
those who live or sojourn in the Philippine territory, subject to the principles of public international law
and to treaty stipulations.
____________________6. The law is applicable to all crimes committed within the limits of the
Philippine territory.
____________________7. The laws have only prospective application unless they are favorable to the
offender who is not habitual delinquent.
____________________9. All laws must be interpreted liberally in favor of the accused and strictly
against the State.
___________________12. Those which are always consummated because the offender cannot perform
the acts necessary for their execution without consummating the offense.
___________________13. Those which can be committed in any of the three stages of execution.
___________________15. There is no crime when there is no law that defines and punishes it.
___________________17. The evidence of the prosecution and of the defense are equally balanced, the
scale should be titled in favor of the accused in view of the constitutional presumption of innocence.
___________________20. These are acts which are made evil by a law (a special penal law) prohibiting
the same.
___________________22. It had the facts been true to the belief of the offender, that mistake can
justify his act.
___________________23.The offender intends the injury on one person but the harm fell on another.
___________________24. The offender committed a mistake in ascertaining the identity of the victim.
___________________26.The injury is on the intended victim but the resulting consequences is so grave
a wrong than what was intended.
___________________27. The result in crime although not intended. It result in criminal liability to the
actor whether acting with intent or through negligence.
___________________29. Is that cause which, in its natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by an
efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred.
a.
b.
c.